Growing Shrubs That Have Disease Resistance
Below you will find a list of Evergreens and Shrubs from our plant database that are disease resistant. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain photos, plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping. The concept of a shrub can be difficult to define since different people might consider the same plant a groundcover, broadleaf evergreen, bush or tree.
Uses for these bushes vary by variety, and may thrive in full shade, partial shade or full sun and a variety of soil conditions including wet soil, moist soil, or dry soil.
With increased awareness of the value that native shrubs add to the natural landscape, these suggestions will help you make good choices about which plants are best suited for your home garden: hardier than the common name implies, Alabama snow-wreath is a free-flowering collector's plant for moderate to moist areas; American Cranberry Viburnum (V. trilobum) and the many cultivars are relatively trouble-free; Box Sandmyrtle (Leiophyllum buxifolium); Carolina Allspice or Common Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) is a fragrant, trouble-free border plant.
Europe and Asia have given American gardeners numerous ornamental plants that tolerate or thrive in the environmental conditions in the United States. Suggestions include: Ashleaf or Ural Falsespirea (Sorbaria sorbifolia); Blue-mist Shrub, Blue-spirea or Bluebeard (Caryopteris x clandonensis) and the many recent cultivar introductions brighten the sunny summer garden; Broom; Chinese Fringe-flower (Loropetalum); Crapehyrtle (Lagerstroemia); Doublefile Viburnum (V. plicatum var. tomentosum); Forsythia; Glossy Abelia (A.x grandiflora); Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina domestica); Japanese Aucuba and the variegated selections; Japanese Snowball Viburnum (V. plicatum); Korean Lilac (Syringa meyeri); Leatherleaf and Linden Viburnums (V. rhytidophyllum and V. dilatatum); Littleleaf, Manchurian and Pekin Lilacs (S. microphylla, S. patula S. pekinensis).
Gardeners tend to think of roses differently and put the plants in a separate category. These Virtual Plant Tags have a section devoted exclusively to roses, because of the enormous number of selected cultivars to chose from. You should know that an industry focus is continuing to bring pest-free and disease-free shrub roses for wider use in the home garden. Incredible free-flowering and fragrant roses have been introduced that flower from spring all the way through frost, showing no black spot or aphid problems during the year, so the glossy leaves are a pretty background for the flowers to contrast with.
