Shrubs & Plants for Spring Color

You can enhance your garden's Spring appeal by planting shrubs and other plants that produce colorful flowers and/or foliage during the spring season.

Use the chart below to select spring-flowering plants for certain sun exposures, water needs, bloom season and USDA Zones

*Water Needs: Indicates needs once plants are established

Click on a plant name to see plant

Plant Name or Type	Photo	Flower Color	Spring Bloom Time	Spring Foliage	Berry Color	USDA Zones
Abelias		-	-	Multi-color	-	6-9
Anise 'Florida Sunshine' - Illicium		-	-	Yellow	-	7-9
Azaleas - Encore		29 Colors	Mid	Green	-	6-9 (varies)
Azaleas - Other		Many!	Early-Late	Green	-	5-10 (varies)
Camellia Japonicas		Pink, Red, Wh	Early	Dark Green	-	7-10
Cypress 'Blue Ice'		-	-	Silver-Blue	Blue	6-9
Cypress "Gold Mop'		-	-	Golden-Yellow	-	5-10
Cypress 'Silver Smoke'		-	-	Silver-Grey	Blue	7-9
Gardenias		White	Mid-Late	Dark Green	-	7-11 (varies)
Indian Hawthorne - Rhaphiolepis		White, Pink	Mid	Green	-	7-11
Juniper 'Blue Star'		-	-	Blue	-	4-8
Ligustrum - Privet		White	Mid	Various	-	6-10
Loropetalums (Chinese Witchazel)		Pink, Red	Early	Purple	-	7-10
Mock Orange - Philadelphus		White	Mid-Late	Green	-	5-8
Nandina 'Blush Pink'		-	-	Dk. Pink	-	6-10
Nandina 'Flirt'		White	Mid	Red	-	6-11
Nandina 'Obsession'		White	Mid	Red	-	6-11
Rhododendron & Native Azaleas		Assorted	Early-Mid	Green	-	6-9
Roses		Assorted	Early-Late	Green	-	4-11 (varies)
Tea Olive - Osmanthus		White, Yllw, Orng	Early-Mid	Dark Green	-	7b-10
Viburnum		White	Mid-Late	Green	-	5-9 (varies)
Winter Daphne - Daphne odora		White, Purple	Early	Dark Green	-	7-9
Yucca 'Color Guard'		-	Late	Yellow	-	4-9

Perennial Spring Color Plants		Flower Color	Spring Bloom Time	Spring Foliage	Berry Color	USDA Zones
Achillea - Yarrow		Assorted	Mid-Late	Green	-	4-9
Ajuga - Bugleweed		Assorted	Early-Late	Assorted	-	3-10 (varies)
Artemisia (Wormwood)		-	-	Silver-Grey	-	5-9
Astilbe (False Spirea)		Assorted	Mid-Late	Green	-	4-9
Autumn Fern		-	-	Bronze-Orange	-	3-8
Baptisia (False Indigo)		Assorted	Mid	Blue-Green	-	4-8
Blue Star Creeper - Isotoma		Light Blue	Mid-Late	Green	-	5-9
Dianthus - Cottage Pinks		Assorted	Early-Late	Grey-Green	-	3-9
Digiplex (Foxglove)		Orange-Pink	Early-Late	Green	-	8-11
Euphorbia		Assorted	Early	Assorted	-	7-9
Fragaria (Strawberry)		Pink Shades	Early-Mid	Green	-	3-9
Helianthemum (Sun Rose)		Red	Early-Late	Green	-	4-9
Heuchera (Coral Bells)		Assorted	Mid-Late	Assorted	-	4-9
Iberis (Candytuft)		White, Pink	Early-Mid	Green	-	3-9
Ice Plants		Assorted	Early-Late	Green	-	5-11 (varies)
Iris		Assorted	Late	Green	-	4-9
Lamium		Assorted	Mid-Late	Various	-	3-11
Lenten Rose - Helleborus		Many Colors	Early	Dark Green	-	5-9
Lamb's Ear - Stachys		-	-	Silver-White	-	4-9
Lithodora		Blue	Early-Late	Green	-	5-8
Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny)		-	-	Yellow	-	4-9
Mazus		Blue, White	Early-Mid	Green	-	5-8
Phlox - Creeping		Assorted	Early-Mid	Green	-	3-8
Pulmonaria (Lungwort)		Blue	Early-Mid	Silver-White	-	3-8
Scabiosa (Pincushion Flower)		Blue	Early-Late	Green	-	4-9
Tiarella (Foam Flower)		White	Early-Mid	Various	-	4-9
Verbena		Assorted	Early-Late	Green	-	6-10 (varies)
Veronica (Spreading)		Blue	Early-Late	Various	-	4-8
Veronica Upright		Assorted	Late	Green	-	4-8