Fast-growing shrubs may quickly become rampant and often overgrow the space.Worse yet, invasive exotic plants from foreign lands can produce large crops of seed and spread indiscriminately.
Fast-Growing Thugs:
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Overgrown Privet in flower |
- Ligustrum or Privet Extremely common and very fast-growing but it is also an exotic invasive plant ruining large stands of southeatern parks and forests.
- Leyland Cypress Fast growing but becomes much more huge than ever anticipated, with a circumference of 40 feet (!) and will soon outgrow nearly every location and certainly all but the very largest locations.
Invasive Exotics Fast-growing Shrubs
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Burning Bush fall color |
The following five shrubs grow quickly but also produce bumper crops of seed that invade native forests and woodlands and spread like wildfire. These plants will out-compete native plants growing there, crowding out beloved plant species and creating solid stands of just that one type of plant.
- Burning Bush Brilliant red fall foliage does not compensate for the spread of this Euonymus.
- Butterfly Bush Attractive to pollinators but if you must choose this invasive flowering shrub, be sure to select a sterile cultivar that does not set seed - newly introduced).
- Barberry Pricker bush but some cultivars have yellow, orange or red colorful folilage and some new sterile cultivars that do not set seed are being introduced.
- Lantana Quickly transforms from a low border perennial to a large shrub with too many seeds.
- Russian Olive Delightful fragrance in late fall/early winter, but beware both thorns and "olives".
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Knockout Roses |
Crabapple Select: Good Choices for Well-Behaved, Rapid-Growing Shrubs
- Knockout
Rose Knockout roses
in Atlanta bloom profusely at least 10 months of the year and are carefree once
established.
- Forsythia Early spring burst of yellow grows quickly
- Tea
Olive Broad-leaf
evergreen known for its enchanting fragrance each fall.
- Wax
Myrtle, also known as Bayberry Delightful fragrance of twigs and waxy gray berries still used
to make scented candles on this fast-growing evergreen shrub or small
tree.
- Loropetalum Dark maroon-red foliage is evergreen, and
shrubs are completely covered with pink or white tassel-like flowers in very
early spring.
Your Crabapple Rep will be happy to help choose the very best fast-growing shrubs for the properties you manage; just give us a call 770-740-9739.
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The burning bush does look nice.. thanks for share...
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