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Most color during the summer months is generally supplied by perennials and annuals. You can also add some 'different' color to the normal all-green landscape by planting variegated, yellow or gold leaved shrubs. And, these shrubs also make excellent accent or specimen plants.
Below are some examples of these deciduous shrubs:
Golden Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii 'Aurea') is a dense, slow-growing shrub that grows 3 to 4 feet tall. The foliage is a bright, golden-yellow in full sun. Excellent in contrast with the red Barberries such as Crimson Pigmy, Rosy Glow, and the standard red. In shady sites, the leaves are a yellow-green.
Golden Variegated Wax Leaf Privet
(Ligustrum x vicaryi) is a vase-shaped shrub
that commonly grows 4 to 6 feet tall, but can reach a height of 10 to 12 feet.
Golden privet has bright yellow and green foliage when grown in full sun. Plants
grown in the shade have yellow-green leaves.
Dart's Gold Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius 'Dart's Gold') is a hardy, adaptable shrub that grows well in difficult sites. The shrub has yellow foliage and grows 4 to 5 feet tall. It also produces white flowers in spring and reddish fruit in the fall.
Golden Elder (Sambucus canadensis 'Aurea') is a hardy, rapidly growing shrub which eventually reaches a height of 8 to 10 feet. The foliage retains its yellow color throughout the spring and summer. Plants produce white flowers in flat-topped clusters in June or July and cherry red fruit by late summer. Elders do well in wet soil, but will also tolerate dry conditions. Plants do sucker.
Lemon Princess Spirea (Spiraea x bumalda 'lemon princess') is a small 2 to 3 foot shrub. Spring foliage consists of shades of red, copper, and orange that gradually changes to yellow-green and finally to green by summer. Fall leaf color is copper-orange. Plants also produce pink flowers in summer.
Goldmound Spirea (Spiraea x 'Goldmound') is a 2 to 3 foot, low-mounded shrub with golden-yellow foliage and pink flowers in May and June.
Dakota Goldcharm®
Spirea
Spiraea japonica 'mertyann'
Color Choice®!!
Variegated Forsythia
Kumson Forsythia
Suwan Gold Forsythia
Here are some examples of evergreens:
Gold Coast Juniper (Juniperus chinensis 'Gold Coast') is a compact, spreading shrub. It grows approximately 2 to 3 feet high with a spread of 4 to 6 feet. New growth is a golden yellow.
Old Gold Juniper (Juniperus chinensis 'Old Gold') is similar in size to the Gold Coast juniper but the gold foliage is more extensive.
Rheingold Arborvitae
(Thuja occidentalis 'Rheingold') is a
slow-growing, globe- to cone-shaped shrub with deep gold foliage. In winter, the
foliage turns copper to brownish yellow. Plants grow approximately 4 to 5 feet
tall. Rheingold arborvitae is hardy in zone 5.
Golden Globe Arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis 'Golden Globe') is a dense, globe-shaped shrub with bright golden yellow foliage. It grows about 3 to 4 feet high.
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