If there’s one big sale I circle in my gardening calendar every year, it’s this one Home Depot’s Spring Black Friday event. While everyone else rushes to buy power tools and patio furniture, I make a beeline straight for the garden center.
Buying mature, live plants can be one of the biggest investments you make in your yard. But during this huge spring sale, you can completely transform your landscape for a fraction of the regular cost. This is exactly the time when I look to source classic, high-value flowering shrubs — from favorite hydrangeas and elegant roses at azaleas which are the absolute stars of my spring garden.
If you’ve been holding off on your spring planting, look no further. I dug through the sales to find the absolute best deals, including a coveted peony which is guaranteed to disappear quickly. Here are the show-stopping flowering shrubs I’m adding to my cart right now.
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The Lonely Peony
Before we get into the main categories, I need to issue a quick sellout warning. Home Depot has exactly that a wonderful variety of peony are included in this bulk sale. Because mature peonies are the ultimate garden investment, they always sell out quickly. I guarantee this will be the first thing to disappear from the site, so if you want it, add it to your cart before you do anything else!
THE “Sarah Bernhardt” it is known for its massive, incredibly fragrant, pastel pink double blooms. Because this deal gives you a mature, living 2-gallon bush, you won’t have to wait years for it to establish and bloom like you would with smaller bare roots.
The roses
Roses are the ultimate classic garden staplerbut establishing a new rose with fully mature bushes it can quickly eat into your spring budget. Spring Black Friday shopping is the smartest way to get big plants ready to bloom at a fraction of their regular cost. Whether you want an elegant, wide-ranging ground variety or a popular low-maintenance choice that practically thrives on neglect, here are the roses I’m adding to my basket.
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White Drift Rose 2-Pack
We love multi-pack plant deals and grabbing a 2-pack of these gorgeous drift roses on sale is the smartest way to fill out your garden borders. They offer elegant, bright white flowers and a spread habit that looks incredibly high-end for a fraction of the cost.
If you want an immediate impact, this 2 gallon Peach Drift mature rose is a must buy. It features striking pink and orange flowers that create a rich, expansive carpet of color in your garden beds with almost no effort.
The hydrangeas
Hydrangeas they are the heavy hitters of the spring garden, famous for their massive, architectural blooms. Because they are such great value plants, buying multi-gallon established shrubs during a big sale event is one of my favorite money-saving gardening hacks. I’m always on the lookout for top-performing, reliable rebloomers—like the wildly popular ones Endless Summer line — to guarantee my yard is full of color all season long.
Endless Summer
BloomStruck hydrangea
Endless Summer Hydrangeas are a huge favorite among our readers for a reason. THE BloomStruck variety is a prolific rebloomer that produces beautiful blue or purple flowers all summer, easily adjusting its color based on your soil pH!
Proven winners
Limelight hydrangea
This is not just a bush – it has been trained into a stunning tree form! Buying a huge 3-gallon Projector tree during a sale event is the ultimate hack to add premium, architectural beauty and huge green to pink blooms to your yard without paying premium nursery prices.
Proven winners
Incrediball hydrangea
Talk about instant gratification! Catching a fully established 5 gallon bush during spring Black Friday is a huge win for your garden. The Incrediball variety is famous for its absolutely huge, structural white blooms that will instantly anchor your flower beds.
The Azaleas
Here in the Pacific Northwest, azaleas they are the absolute stars of my spring garden. Their huge bursts of color are the perfect way to instantly anchor your flower beds. While traditional azaleas put on a one-and-done show, I highly recommend using this sale to snag reblooming varieties. Buying them now means you’ll get a great display this spring and they’ll give you a second color in late summer and fall!
Encore
Also Sunburst Azalea
Azaleas are usually a unique spring show, but actually the famous Encore series blooms again! This low-maintenance evergreen shrub puts out a stunning display of coral and white ruffled flowers in spring and will give you a second flush of color in late summer and fall.
Encore
Autumn Moonlight Azalea
If you prefer a clean, elegant aesthetic in your spring garden, this variety Autumn Moonlight is an absolute must-have. It produces masses of stunning, pure white ruffled blooms that pop beautifully against its evergreen foliage.
