Growing White Flowering Shrubs
Below you will find a list of Shrubs from our plant database that are white flowering. If you click any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping. The concept of a shrub can be difficult to define since different people might consider the same plant a groundcover, broadleaf evergreen, bush or tree.
This list of recommendations for native shrubs with white flowers is exciting because it is filled with vigorous growing native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have disease resistance. Probably the most fragrant of our native azaleas is the Alabama Azalea (Rhododendron (Azalea) alabamense). Worthy of inclusion in landscaping are these natives: American Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum); American Elder (Sambucus canadensis); Arrowwood Viburnum (V. dentatum) with its beautiful fall color and blue berries; Bush Cinquefoil (Potentialla fruticosa); Carolina and Catawba Rhododendrons; Coast Azalea (Rhododendron atlanticum); Coast Leucothoe or Dog-nobble (L. axillaris); Dwarf and Large Fothergillas (F. gardenii and F.major); Eastern Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius); Fetter Bush or Mountain Pieris (P. floribunda); magnificent in flower is Georgia Plume (Elliottia racemosa); Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora); Broad-leaved Meadowsweet (Spiraea latifolia); most spectacular when blooming is the native Mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia) and the many cultivars selected; very durable, the Oakleaf Hydrangea (H. quercifolia) also has interesting leaves; Piedmont Azalea, also known as Florida Pinxter, Hoary Azalea and R. canescens is more shade tolerant that other deciduous native azaleas; Virginia Sweetspire or Virginia-willow (Itea virginica) is growing in popularity for fragrance, flowering when few other shrubs are in the summer and tolerance of wet areas; Yucca or Adam's Needle and variegated cultivars with their dramatic summer flower spikes.
Don't forget about roses when you are considering white flowered shrubs. Fresh rose breeding is bringing pest-free and disease-free landscape roses. To get flowering shrub that flower spring through frost and are low maintenance is exactly what today's busy homeowners are looking for. New roses can be a great answer.
Bushes with white flowers add a brightness and softness to the landscape and work with cool colors of purple, blue and pink but also with warm colors of red, magenta, fuchsia and yellow. Shrubs with white blooms look great with green and white leaves of variegated plants.