Vitex

Shrubs are an integral part of any landscape design. They offer year-round structure and seasonal interest through their showy flowers, fruit, and leaf and stem color. Many shrubs provide important wildlife habitat as a source for food and shelter. Use shrubs as a transition plant along woodland edges, in borders or as specimen plants

At Natureworks, we specialize in offering our clients constant color all year round through a wide diversity of flowering shrubs. We also focus on dwarf and semi-dwarf evergreens and deciduous shrubs for redesigned foundation plantings. We often assist our customers in converting high-maintenance flower gardens to easy care borders through the incorporation of shrubs with colorful foliage and blossoms, winter twigs and berries, and evergreen structure.

Ilex pedunculosa

Listed below are some of our favorites to pique your interest:

Abeliophyllum distichum – White Forsythia

Buddleia davidii ‘Adonis’ – Dwarf Butterfly Bush

Buxus ‘Green Mountain’ – Green Mountain Boxwood

Callicarpa dichotam ‘Early Amethyst’’- Beautyberry

Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Filicoides’ – Fernspray False Cypress

Clethra alnifolia ‘Ruby Spice’ – Ruby Spice Summersweet

Fothergilla major ‘Blue Shadow’ – Blue Shadow Fothergilla

Hibiscus syriacus ‘Variegated’ - Variegated Rose of Sharon

Hydrangea serrata ‘Acuminata Preciosa’ – Deep Red Hydrangea

Ilex pedunculosa- Longstalk Holly

Ilex verticillata – Winterberry

Kalmia latifolia ‘Sarah’ – Sarah Mountain Laurel

Leptodermis oblonga-Chinese Leptodermis

Leucothoe catesbei ‘Compacta’ – Compact Drooping Leucothoe

Pieris japonica ‘Flaming Silver’ – Flaming Silver Japanese Pieris

Pinus strobus ‘John’s Find’ – John’s Find Dwarf Eastern White Pine

Rhododendron kuisianum ‘Komo Kulshan’ – Komo Kulshan Japanese Azalea

Rhododendron viscosum ‘Pink n Sweet’ – Pink ‘n Sweet Azalea

Rhododendron ‘Towhead’ – Towhead (pale yellow dwarf) Rhododendron

Syringa vulgaris ‘Ludwig Spaeth’ – Ludwig Spaeth Lilac (deep, dark purple)

Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum ‘Summer Snowflake’ – Doublefile Viburnum

Vitex agnus-castus – Chaste Tree

Buddleia davidii 'Lo and Behold' is an amazing dwarf butterfly bush that only grows 2-3 feet tall and has sterile seed pods. It keeps on blooming even if you forget to deadhead it!

Chaenomeles 'Crimson and Gold'

Hibiscus syriacus 'Sugar Tip' is a green and white variegated rose of Sharon with gorgeous, double, soft pink flowers.

Viburnum plicatum