May 21, 2025 - With vibrant foliage, wispy flowers, and smoke-like seedheads, smokebush is sure to delight anyone visiting your home. This shrub also requires little maintenance to keep it thriving in your landscape as it’s best left unpruned, and once established, it’s quite drought tolerant.

If the idea of a low maintenance plant that blooms for months sounds appealing, take a look at the Chiffon series of rose of Sharon shrubs. They grow quickly, don’t require pruning, and produce few to no seeds so they won’t pop up elsewhere around the garden.

May 2, 2025 - Blooming in late spring to early summer, lilacs attract pollinators and make excellent cut flowers. Though slow to reach full size—sometimes taking up to 20 years—they are long-lived, low-maintenance, and well worth the wait.

March 11, 2025 - Landscaping ideas: Lining walkways and sidewalks, low-growing accent plant, mass plantings, filler for awkwardly shaped beds, containers. Suntastic® Pink Abelia. Image courtesy of PlantHaven International, Inc.

December 4, 2024 - If you trim off the spent flowers, the bush often reblooms and may even be in near-continual flower from early summer through autumn. ‘Little Princess’ spirea is bursting with pink blooms by mid-summer. Japanese spirea has long been adored ...

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August 12, 2025 - These shrubs, featuring vibrant, five-petaled flowers in hues ranging from sunny yellows to rich oranges, effortlessly enhance curb appeal with their prolific blooms and mounded, compact habit. Beyond their eye-catching blooms, what makes potentilla particularly appealing for front yards is their low-maintenance nature and drought tolerance.

April 15, 2025 - This conical evergreen shrub adds a formal touch to any front yard. It's slow-growing and drought-tolerant once established—perfect for symmetry near an entryway. Zones: 3–8 Care: Full sun, well-drained soil, minimal pruning. Why it’s great: Compact, slow-growing, and perfect for entryways. Spirea is a deciduous shrub that produces fluffy clusters of flowers in spring or summer. It’s low-maintenance, deer-resistant, and tolerates a range of soil types.

Visual guide to the best shrubs for home gardening

July 28, 2025 - In colder regions within its hardiness range, bluebeard will die back to the ground most years but quickly jump back up again each spring. ... Also known as bottlebrush, dwarf fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii) is a low-maintenance small shrub ...

June 9, 2024 - We've rallied up more than a dozen low-maintenance shrubs for the front of your house. Plants like hydrangeas, azaleas, and boxwood thrive with little upkeep.

May 30, 2024 - Yew is an ideal option, as opposed to the problematic box. Yew plants have dense and bushy foliage that is evergreen and super easy to maintain.

April 10, 2025 - Dwarf varieties, slow-growing shrubs, and native plants adapted to local conditions make ideal selections for low-maintenance landscaping. Spirea is a perfect flowering shrub for gardeners who want an effortless-to-maintain option.

September 3, 2023 - The flowers and foliage come in various colors, making this low-maintenance, drought-tolerant shrub a natural fit with your foundation plants. ... Foliage: Deciduous. ... Now all you have to do is choose! Planting any of these flowering bushes gives you the attractiveness of flowering plants for the front of your house without the hassle of planting new plants every year.

Hey all, I am fairly new to gardening I live in zone 7A Pennsylvania, and cannot decide on a low maintenance flowering shrub for my front yard. It will only be for a small section right in front of my front porch, I would say it's probably about 8ft long . It receives morning sun for about 5 hours o...

For vibrant color year-round, try Sunshine Ligustrum—its golden foliage stays bright without constant pruning. If you want seasonal blooms, the Lavender Formosa Azalea delivers a stunning display of purple flowers in spring.

We’ve selected low-maintenance shrubs that offer real improvements. They fit their spaces without constant pruning and shaping, and they bloom earlier or longer, or with more blooms and colors. Planting these vibrant hues and textures will brighten your gardens throughout the year, and for years to come. Discover the Southern Living® Plant Collection—your source for exceptional evergreen shrubs, perennial flowers, grasses, tropicals, berry plants, fruit trees, and more.

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