Please recommend small shrubs that will keep their color most of the year

[Anonymous]

Lyonia ligustrina

in spring


in fall

[Anonymous]

I like inkberry holly, and it's easy to find.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go native and don't go boring.

Try beautyberry:


http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CAAM2

We have a Callicarpa and I don't think it's what you are looking for. It's gorgeous in the fall but is completely bare for a lot of the year.

[Anonymous]

Red Elderberry

[Anonymous]

Evergreen Shrubs:

Gaultheria procumbens
Ilex glabra
Kalmia angustifolia
latifolia Morella (Myrica)
caroliniensis (heterophylla) cerifera
Rhododendron maximum
Vaccinium macrocarpon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Evergreen Shrubs:

Gaultheria procumbens
Ilex glabra
Kalmia angustifolia
latifolia Morella (Myrica)
caroliniensis (heterophylla) cerifera
Rhododendron maximum
Vaccinium macrocarpon

But wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) and cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) are tiny little shrubs. And mountain laurel (Kalmia angustifolia) and sheep laurel (Kalmia latifolia) are fussy. And Rhododendron maximum gets huge when it's happy, which it probably wouldn't be next to a driveway, and I've never seen it for sale at garden stores.

[Anonymous]

OP here, a lot of these are really beautiful. Thanks! I'm leaving towards the inkberry. Anything I should do special to get it started or keep it up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, a lot of these are really beautiful. Thanks! I'm leaving towards the inkberry. Anything I should do special to get it started or keep it up?

It's pretty easy to grow. I'd ask the nursery:
http://behnkes.com/website/gardening-articles/shrubs-trees-a-vines/444-inkberry-holly-is-native-and-evergreen.html

[Anonymous]

I am curious about burning bush?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am curious about burning bush?

Burning bush is invasive in Maryland.