Flowering Shrubs

[F, Calla & Luca]

These are too numerous to count really. Roses are usually in a category all their own. I particularly like old fashioned mountain laurel, not the newer cultivars:

Through the deer fence

Lilacs are lovely to look at and smell.

Camellias

Mock Orange

Hydrangeas:

Wegeila

Not to mention Bridal Veil, Forsythia, Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Rose of Sharon, Honeysuckle Bush.  And that 's just my garden and current thoughts. Please add yours. I'm sure the west coast members have special ones some of us can't grow.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Weigela. This was new to me, but I saw it in my neighborhood and fell in love. I put three small bushes in the front yard in front of the porch. There are some in the neighborhood that are huge. I passed one this evening and thought "I should take a photo of that for the Garden Group. Of course, as usual, I failed to take a photo of mine, which are on the way out, but this is the same variety, "Wine and Roses":

[F, Calla & Luca]

How funny. I was busy putting this together and my Wine and Roses is now in the discussion. I have a sweet mini called Monet with variegated leaves and just put in some tiny new ones, which will also be minis. It never ends and that's the good and bad news : ) The nickname for Weigela is the "Schoolyard Bush". The newer varieties are terrific. We used to spell it Weigelia and pronounce it Why-Jeel- Leah but somewhere along the line they dropped the i.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Tell me more about the "Schoolyard Bush" thing.
Your Wine & Roses looks beautiful, and I love the photos I've seen of Monet. I think that will be the next shrub I put in.
I got a small second blooming on my shrubs (they're teensy) in late summer last year. Just a few flowers, but it was very nice at a time when everything else is fading.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Thanks. Monet is really mini, probably less than a foot high. I just tried to look up the "Schoolyard Bush" thing and can't find it just yet. It might be in some of my old garden books. I think it was my father who told me that. I had a big Weigela on the side of my old house when I moved in there--egad, about 30 years ago. It's interesting that people are now planting them in these school garden habitats.
Here's an interesting article and some of the cultivars are just beautiful--uh oh
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1212/

[F, Calla & Luca]

In fact, that's my Weigela from last year's picture in the Garden Group profile picture.

[Lauria Orr]

Gorgeous flowers, all of them!!!!! I have not heard of Wegeila. It is stunning...all of these are! Thank you for sharing these!

[F, Calla & Luca]

You're welcome.