Oklahoma summers are often long with hot temperatures, drying winds, and minimal rainfall. Landscape plantings, especially those installed in the past year, are very susceptible to damage or death during the summer months due to lack of adequate soil moisture.

Summer flowering shrubs provide color to the landscape in the hot, dog days of summer. Most of these shrubs begin blooming in June and continue to blossom into October. They’re critical allies to have if you value continuous sequence of bloom.