Best New Garden Plants: Shrubs & Fragrant Roses
Make a big impact in your garden border with colorful new shrubs from this lineup of new introductions for 2025, including our favorite fragrant roses! This year’s crop of new shrubs features some amazing introductions. From beautiful foliage, delicious fruit, and intoxicating fragrance, there’s sure to be something to entice you to try one of these new shrubs for 2025. Discover unique shrubs that could be the perfect addition to your garden this year!
1. Sgt. Pepper Tatarian Dogwood (Cornus alba)
For multi-season interest with just one plant, try Sgt. Pepper Tatarian Dogwood. Spring leaves are pink with creamy edges, right. The pink fades in summer, then the leaves mature to burgundy in fall. To get red stems next winter, prune back the oldest stems by a third after the white flowers bloom in early spring.
2. Golden Child Arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis)
This pint-sized shrub fits easily into any size border or container. It has a naturally rounded shape and golden leaves that develop a slight bronze cast in winter. And it has excellent resistance to leaf scorch caused by drought.
3. Flowery Soft Hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)
Tired of limp hydrangeas? Flowery Soft Hydrangea won’t let you down. Its sturdy stems hold its profusion of fluffy white flowers upright, where you can enjoy them. Pruning is pretty simple – just cut back the dead stems by a third in early spring.
4. Crown Point Holly (Ilex hybrid)
Make a statement in the border with this elegant new columnar holly—no pruning required. The glossy, long blue-green leaves have the same prickly edge that gives the holly its unique look. Crown Point will produce few berries on its own, but you’ll get even more if you grow ‘Blue Prince’ nearby.
5. Bountiful Belle Blueberry (Vaccinated Hybrid)
This new blueberry has multi-seasonal beauty made easy. It features multi-colored new growth, abundant white spring flowers, purple-blue edible berries, and red fall foliage. Bountiful Belle requires 800 chill hours (winter temperatures between 32 and 45 degrees F) to produce fruit.
6. Easy Charmer Miniature Rose (Rosa hybrida)
If you don’t have a lot of space, but love roses, try this new miniature. Its small size fits in most spaces and it has beautiful 1 ½ to 2 ½ inch petal-filled flowers with a delicious fragrance. It blooms all season and has disease-resistant foliage.
7. Danahu Shrub Rose (Rosa hybrida)
This beautiful shrub rose is hard to resist in any area it grows. In addition to its delicious apricot-colored flowers, it also has a fruity fragrance that you’ll want to embrace again and again. And as a shrub rose, it’s disease-resistant, easy to care for, and blooms all season long.
8. Love Me, Love Me Hybrid Tea Rose (Rosa hybrida)
Looking for a rose that really stands out? Check out the Loves Me Loves Me Not Tea Rose with its beautiful 5-inch double blooms and a lovely fragrance you can't miss. Don't forget to cut a few stems to bring home for your vase - it also makes a great cut flower!
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