{"id":10100,"date":"2016-04-26T01:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10100"},"modified":"2016-04-20T05:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:44:12","slug":"may-flowering-ornamental-shrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/may-flowering-ornamental-shrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"May Flowering Ornamental Shrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spring<\/a><\/p>\n

I received a book for Easter entitled ‘Ornamental Shrubs for Temperate Gardens May Flowering’ by Edward Hyams.
\nSince its publication in 1965 the botanic names of the odd variety may have changed (this is a continued source of annoyance to me as soon as I learn one Latin name it is changed into another). However the awe that spring blossom can produce may let me forget this minor issue.<\/p>\n

This is my selection from over 50 shrubs and many species that Hyams recommends for May flowering.<\/p>\n

Caragana – a broom like shrub
\nCastanea alnifolia or pumila – sweet chestnut shrubs
\nCeanothus<\/a>
\nCercis siliquastrum – Judas tree appropriate given my gift.
\nCestrum from the Solanaceae family
\n\"Clematis\"<\/a>
\nClematis<\/strong> from alpina, montana or patens groups.
\nCrataegus – hawthorns, look out for prunifolia
\nCytisus and Genista <\/a>– brooms including burkwoodii crimson flowers and goldfinch cream
\nDaphne – dwarfe alpina or evergreen burkwoodii
\nDeutzia – chunii or elegantissima
\nEleagnus
\nEmbothrium – a small but spectacular tree
\nEnkianthus – bell flowers with autumn foliage
\nGaultheria – evergreen shallon or hispida alpine species
\nGrevillea – evergreen upto 8 feet tall
\nKalmia – angustifolia or sheeps laurel
\n\"Kerria<\/a>
\nKerria<\/strong>
\nLeptospermum or Tea-Tree
\nLeucothoe -with lily of the valley like flowers in racemes
\nLithospermum diffusum 8″ high but spreading
\nLonicera- honeysuckles
\nMagnolia
\nMalus – crab apples really small trees
\nMitraria – coccinea a climber likinh shade and protection
\nOlearia – daisy bushes
\n\"Peony\"<\/a>
\nPaeonia<\/strong> including tree peonies
\nPernettya – low growing mucronata
\nPhotinia
\nPittosporum – shrub or tree speciespatulum or tenuifolium have good varieties
\nPrunus – almonds and cherries
\n\"Rhodo\"<\/a>
\nRhododendrons<\/strong>
\nRoses – ecae is an early flowering species
\nRosemary
\nRubus – brambles deliciosus can be trained round into a cylindrical shape
\nSorbus – mountain ash chamaemespilus or dwarfe whitebeam.
\nSyringia – lilac hybrids
\nTamarix – parviflora
\nVaccinium – glauco-album bell shaped flowers and blue berries
\nViburnum
\nWisteria – sinensis can climb to 100 feet, flore pleno has a double flower<\/p>\n

\"Book<\/a><\/p>\n

‘The Creative Shrub Garden by Andy McIndoe provides a truly shrub-focused design guide which shows the reader how to combine shrubs along with perennials and bulbs in attractive, long-lasting planting schemes. He describes how to use these low-maintenance woody plants in the way that gardeners normally use perennials……………’
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May flowering shrubs for your garden selected for variety and colour from a wide range of speiceis and varieties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}