Top 23 Flowering Shrubs
for Southwest Missouri
More Flowers, Less Maintenance
Flowering shrubs are an amazing, multipurpose plant to use in your landscape. They’re beautiful, they can form hedges, they can fill space in your garden bed, pollinators love them, and they smell great!
Below is a list of 23 flowering shrubs that work well in Southwest Missouri, organized by light requirements.
Note: Different varieties of each shrub can have different heights, shapes, fall colors, flower colors, and bloom times. What we give is a common range. Be sure to check the specific information about the variety you choose to make sure you get a shrub you love.
Full Sun (6+ hours)
Abelia (Abelia x grandiflora)
- Blooms: May-September
- Color: White, Pink
- Size: 2-6’
Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii)
- Blooms: June-September
- Color: Purple, Pink, White
- Size: 5-10’
Crapemyrtle (Laerstroemia indica)
- Blooms: July-September
- Color: Pink, White, Red, Lavender
- Size: 3-6’ (dwarf form)
False Indigo (Baptisia australis)
- Blooms: May-June
- Color: Blue, Yellow White
- Size: 3-4’
Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)
- Blooms: March-April
- Color: Red, Pink, White
- Size: 6-10’
Forsythia (Forsythia x intermedia)
- Blooms: March-April
- Color: Yellow
- Size: 6-10’
Hardy Hibiscus (Hibiscus moscheutos)
- Blooms: July-September
- Color: White, Pink, Red
- Size: 3-5’
Lavender (Lavendula)
- Blooms: May-July
- Color: Purple, Blue
- Height: 1-3’
Lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
- Blooms: April-May
- Color: Purple, Pink, White
- Size: 8-15’ (can prune smaller)
Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)
- Blooms: May-June
- Color: White, Light Pink
- Height: 5-10’
Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
- Blooms: July-September
- Color: White, Pink, Lavender, Blue
- Size: 8-12’
Knock Out Roses (Rosa hybrida)
- Blooms: May-September
- Color: White, Pink, Orange, Red, Yellow
- Size: 2-6
Spirea (Spirea)
- Blooms: April-June
- Color: White, Pink
- Height: 2-5’
Tree Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)
- Blooms: July-September
- Color: White, Pink
- Height 8-15’
Tree Peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)
- Blooms: May
- Color: White, Pink, Red, Yellow
- Height: 3-5’
Weigela (Weigela florida)
- Blooms: May-June
- Color: Pink, Red, White
- Height: 4-6’
Partial Sun (4-6 hours, appreciates afternoon shade)
French Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla)
- Blooms: June-August
- Color: Blue, Pink, Purple
- Height: 3-6’
Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
- Blooms: May-July
- Color: White, Pink
- Height: 6-8’
Azalea (Rhododendron)
- Blooms: April-May
- Color: Pink, Red, Orange, White
- Height: 3-6’
Rhododendron (Rhododendron)
- Blooms: May-June
- Color: Pink, Purple, Red, White
- Height: 4-8’
Viburnum (Viburnum)
- Blooms: April-May
- Color: White, Pink
- Height: 6-12’
Full Shade (<4 hours)
Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
- Blooms: March-April
- Color: Yellow flowers, Red berries
- Height: 6-12’
Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
- Blooms: October-November
- Color: Yellow
- Height: 15-20’
Conclusion
We hope you’ve found the perfect shrubs for your Southwest Missouri landscape in this article! If you’re still undecided, Myron Royce Gardens can help. We have been landscaping in the Springfield-Branson area for over 30 years, so we are experts at landscape design. We can choose and plant the shrubs for you, along with trees, annual flowers, or anything else you have in mind.
If you want to check out our work, you can see our portfolios here. If you’re interested in our services, just give us a call at 417-443-2648 or contact us here. We look forward to working with you!
About the Author
Myron Royce Gardens is a professional landscaping company based in Ozark, MO. We provide landscape design, installation, and maintenance services throughout the Springfield-Branson area.
We started this blog because we want to share our knowledge and expertise with everyone in Southwest Missouri. Landscaping is our passion, and we want it to be a pleasant experience for everyone.
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