Spring Blooming Shrubs
Spring blooming shrubs bring fresh color and renewal to the garden, producing abundant flowers as the landscape begins to wake. Their blossoms range from soft pastels to brighter shades of pink, yellow, white, and blue, often appearing alongside emerging foliage. These shrubs add structure to borders and hedges while creating a space that feels bright, inviting, and full, as the season unfolds. Planted with intention, they help carry the garden from early growth into peak spring display with dependable blooms. Different varieties flower at slightly different times, extending the season and adding variety. Over time, you may begin to anticipate their arrival and look forward to the familiar rhythm of spring as each shrub comes into bloom.

Viburnum p. f. plicatum ‘Mary Milton’
Deciduous shrub with layered branching and rounded double soft pink flowers. Attracts pollinators, and produces berries for birds. Grows 6 to 8 feet tall; ideal for wildlife hedges and seasonal screening. Zones: 5 to 8.
Our Picks
These shrubs deliver the fullest show of the spring garden, from soft pastels to bold saturated color. Each has proven dependable here, blooming generously and settling in easily in Northwest soils.

TREE PEONY (Paeonia)
Purple Butterfly Tree Peony

VIBURNUM
Mary Milton Japanese Snowball Tree

LILAC (Syringa)
Charles Joly Lilac

CAMELLIA
April Kiss Camellia

MEXICAN ORANGE BLOSSOM (Choisya)
Mexican Orange Blossom

RHODODENDRON
Koster's Brilliant Red Azalea

JAPANESE SNOW FLOWER (Deutzia)
Japanese Snow Flower

WEIGELA
Wine & Roses Weigela

ELDERBERRY (Sambucus)
Black Lace Elderberry

ALPINE MINT BUSH (Prostanthera)
Alpine Mint Bush

KERRIA
Double Japanese Kerria

HAWTHORN (Rhaphiolepis)
Yeddo Hawthorn

VACCINIUM
Himalayan Whortleberry

SPIREA (Spiraea)
Tor Spirea

CALIFORNIA LILAC (Ceanothus)
Dark Star California Lilac

DOGWOOD (Cornus)
Yellow-Twig Dogwood

FLANNEL BUSH (Fremontodendron)
Pacific Sunset Flannel Bush

DAPHNE
Summer Ice Daphne


