Bushes with white flowers add a brightness and softness to the landscape and work with cool colors of purple, blue and pink but also with warm colors of red, magenta, fuchsia and yellow. Shrubs with white blooms look great with green and white leaves of variegated plants.

Don't forget about roses when you are considering white flowered shrubs. Fresh rose breeding is bringing pest-free and disease-free landscape roses. To get flowering shrub that flower spring through frost and are low maintenance is exactly what today's busy homeowners are looking for.  New roses can be a great answer.

This list of recommendations for native shrubs with white flowers is exciting because it is filled with vigorous growing native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have disease resistance. Probably the most fragrant of our native azaleas is the Alabama Azalea. Worthy of inclusion in landscaping are these natives: American Cranberry, American Elder; Arrowwood Viburnum with its beautiful fall color and blue berries; Bush Cinquefoil; Carolina and Catawba Rhododendrons; Eastern Ninebark; magnificent in flower is Georgia Plume; most spectacular when blooming is the native Mountain-laurel and the many cultivars selected; very durable, the Oakleaf Hydrangea also has interesting leaves; Piedmont Azalea is more shade tolerant that other deciduous native azaleas; Virginia Sweetspire is growing in popularity for fragrance, flowering when few other shrubs are in the summer and tolerance of wet areas; Yucca and variegated cultivars with their dramatic summer flower spikes.

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