Woody Shrub Landscape Plants

Urban Roots Nursery carries high quality, woody shrub landscape plants that are hardy to zones 4 & 5.

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snow covered pine tree branches in the woods

Columnar White Pine

There is nothing quite like the first snow of the season on a Columnar White Pine

several black plastic planters filled with green trees

Woody

Evergreen Shrubs

Shrubs

Evergreen Trees Landscaping

Hicks Yew is an fantastic evergreen shrub that offers year-round color and interest to your home garden or landscape. This evergreen shrub is well known for being utilized to create tall privacy hedges and screens.

a small blue tree sitting in the middle of a field

Globe Blue Spruce on Standard is a dwarf, globe form of Blue Spruce grafted on a standard that essentially raises the shrub up off of the ground to tree form. Globe Blue Spruce have bright blue needle-like foliage. It forms an interesting raised accent plant or can be used in a container on a patio.

Easy Elegance® Sweet Fragrance rose is a well-rounded, 3–4″ double blossoms in tones of apricot, orange, and yellow that open to release their enticing perfume. Older flowers turn salmon pink, enhancing the season-long color show from this prolific Grandiflora rose bush. Sweet Fragrance is a vigorous plant with excellent disease resistance.

pink flowers with green leaves and water droplets on them

Endless Summer® Summer Crush™ Hydrangea is a bush that has large raspberry flowers held upright by sturdy stems. The blooms on Summer Crush™ will bloom on new & old wood. It is a compact hydrangea that blooms all summer long. Large, 3.5”-5” pink or purple blooms depend on soil pH. Dark green foliage takes on a burgundy-red color in the fall.

the white flowers are blooming in the green bushes and trees behind it is an area with many leaves

Ruby Slippers Dwarf Oakleaf Hydrangea is a true dwarf variety that produces incredible 9" long clusters of flowers in early summer in full sun or partial shade. It also thrives in heat, drought or poor soil, as long as it's well drained. Blossoms start out white and gradually turn pink then rose red as summer progresses. The color continues into fall when the foliage turns burgundy.

some white flowers and green leaves in the sun

Drought

Growing

Little Henry® Virginia Sweetspire is a dwarf ornamental shrub that features exquisite early summer blooms and leaves that turn vivid orange and red come fall. This improved cultivar stays smaller and more compact than the native species and other varieties. It is also truly adaptive to a variety of growing conditions. Durable, Little Henry® Virginia Sweetspire grows beautifully in full sun, partial sun or full shade. It can grow in both boggy ground, but can also handle periodic drought.

The Lavender Chiffon® rose of Sharon has large, single lavender flowers and are adorned with a lacy center to create an anemone-like bloom. A row of planting will develop an effortless privacy screen with an abundance of summer color. Like all of the Chiffon® series, it has soft, graceful stems and a rounded form.

white flowers are blooming in the sun and green leaves on the bushy plant

Fire Light™ hydrangea is the new specimen to measure all hardy hydrangeas varieties. Upright panicle blooms are stacked with tiny flowers which change from pure white in the summer months to a luscious pomegranate-pink in late summer to fall. Fire Light™ has thick, sturdy stems that hold up the stunning blooms so they are properly showcased in the landscape. An outstanding woody shrub for foundation plantings, back border areas or fresh cut flowers.

some purple flowers are growing in the garden

Thanksgiving

Hydrangea Not Blooming

Shade Loving Shrubs

Endless Summer Hydrangea

Endless Summer hydrangea blooms from early summer to the first frost. Milder climates should witness consistent blooms until approximately Thanksgiving, except for a brief week or two in August when they may get a little sparse due to heat. Northerners will see full blooms for 3-4 months. This is a shade loving shrub with some newer varieties becoming frost proof.

some white flowers and green leaves on a tree

Blue Muffin viburnum are fabulous - from the development of the deep green, glossy foliage, the flat-topped white flowers that are similar to balls of fluff, the gorgeous bright, blue berries and fabulous fall foliage of burgundy and orange - it's unstoppable all year long!

purple flowers are blooming in the garden

The Blue Chiffon rose of Sharon is an superb flowering shrub for the late-summer landscape. Blue hibiscus flowers cover the shrub from mid-summer into fall. The bloom color is violet-blue. The bushes are fairly tolerant of dry conditions once established.

some very pretty green and yellow leaves

First Editions® Amber Jubilee™ ninebark is an excellent option when creating a focal point in your landscape. This is a medium-sized shrub that was produced for its characteristic foliage colors. Amber Jubilee™ is a shrub that not only has the usual vibrant greens like most shrubs, but also features brilliant oranges and yellows, and maintains that color all season long!