Landscaping With Slow Growing Shrubs

Maintenance

• Some slow growing shrubs, such as Leather-leaf Mahonia, require little water, are winter hardy and their slow growth habit allows gardeners more time with their flowers and less time pruning back shrubbery.

Features

• Kurume azalea, a slow-growing shrub, yields red, pink or white flowers in spring. Azalea's slow growth rate allows a gardener time to enjoy the plant's features before the shrub becomes too large or ill-proportioned for the landscape.

Potential

• When used as temporary landscape fillers slow-growing shrubs are easily transplanted and can can find new homes elsewhere in your garden. Some shrubs, like holly fern, can be moved from the garden to a container.