Foundation Plants

Choose the right foundation plant for your landscape with our collection of shrubs. Landscape design, garden design, garden ideas, shrubs with style.
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Plant this Southern Living Plant Combo for Shade
Let’s look at ‘Soft Caress’ Mahonia and ‘Lemon Lime’ Nandina to learn how to combine contrasting and harmonizing plant characteristics to stunning effect in the shade garden. #shadegarden #lemonlime #southernliving
'Sunshine' Ligustrum from Southern Living
Ideal as a hedge in the landscape -- or a topiary -- Sunshine Ligustrum offers year-round golden foliage that flourishes in full sun. This sterile, non-invasive cultivar will not re-seed into the landscape. In fact, it doesn’t bloom at all, which is good news for allergy sufferers! #sunlovingplants #topiary #privacyhedge #southernliving
Purple Daydream® Dwarf Loropetalum
This petite beauty displays dark purple foliage year-round and bursts with lovely pink string clusters each spring. Purple Daydream™ is versatile, handling full sun to part shade, as well as offering drought tolerance and deer resistance. A compact loropetalum, it spreads nicely into a mound reaching 2-3 feet high by 3-4 feet wide. #dwarfloropetalum #southernliving #purpleplants
Plant Combination: Two-Plant Wow Combo - Southern Living Plants
Plant this #containergarden this weekend! Endurascape Verbena and Baby Gem Boxwood make a tough but beautiful combination for containers or the landscape bed. #plantcombo #southernliving #frontyard #porchcontainers
Plant Combinations: Tried and True Classics
While a study in opposites, White Wedding Hydrangea and Baby Gem Boxwood form a classic garden pairing. #gardencombo #gardenplanning #plantcombo #southernliving #hydrangeas #perennials #boxwood
ScentAmazing™ Gardenia from Southern Living
Create a stir in your garden with ScentAmazing Gardenia's reblooming, fragrant single white blossoms spring to fall. Enjoy intoxicating early blooms against dark evergreen foliage. #gardenias #southernliving #reblooming
White Wedding® Hydrangea
Sturdy, upright branches support large, pillow-like, white blooms. This beauty dazzles as a cut flower or in the garden from accent to mass planting. #hydrangeas #summerblooms #southernliving
Purple PIxie Loropetalum from Southern Living
With its dwarf size and weeping habit, Purple Pixie is just the plant we've been crying for. It grows only 1 to 2 feet tall by 4 to 5 feet wide. It's a great choice for a ground cover, but it can also add vibrant color to hanging baskets, window boxes, and other containers. Showy pink flowers combined with rich purple foliage will move you to tears. #containergardening #purpleplants #dwarfloropetalum #southernlivingplants
Cleyera 'Carolina Sunset' - Southern Living Plants
This new variegated cleyera from Southern Living glows with bright yellow foliage with copper red new growth creates a sunset of color on this compact cleyera. Useful in foundation plantings or mass plantings. #foundationplants #variegated #southernliving
Plant combinations: A Warm and Welcoming Entry
Street side plantings and entry gardens are always on duty. These high-profile front yard sites need visually striking landscape design and a palette of evergreen shrubs that never quit. Here's the plan! #companionplants #entrygarden #sidewalkgarden #boxwood #hellstrip
How to Grow in Your USDA Zone
Before you start planting, get to know your USDA zone and what it means for the plants you select for your landscape. Your new garden plants will thank you! #southernliving #usdazone #gardentips
How to Care for Boxwood - Tips from Southern Living
Versatile boxwood is a garden staple, and for good reason, as its lush, evergreen foliage is always there for us. Here's how to keep yours in tip-top shape! #boxwood #howto #boxwoodcare #hedgeplants #southernliving
Evergreen Plants with Year-Round Purple Foliage
Looking for evergreen shrubs with year-round foliage color that doesn’t fade? Do you want foundation plants that don’t need constant pruning? Southern Living Loropetalums stay compact and purple all season, plus their ribbon blooms are a delight in spring Select your favorite Loropetalum here. #southernliving #foundationplants #purpleplants #compactplants
5 Ways to Use ‘Sunshine’ Ligustrum from Southern Living
‘Sunshine’ Ligustrum is nothing like the unruly privets of old! Altogether different, ‘Sunshine’ is compact in size and flowerless, making it sterile and allergen-free. Sunshine’s appeal is simple – it offers brilliant golden foliage all year long. #ligustrum #plantsforsun #southernliving
Landscape Design Idea from Southern Living
Pair boxwood and nandina and welcome guests with streetside plantings that merge function and style seamlessly. Take a look. #nandina #boxwood #southernliving #plantcombo