French Country Cottages

Flowering Shrub Trees. In spring, they're covered with fragrant white, pink, or red flowers , and produce tiny yellow, orange, or red fruit in fall. Plus, all kinds of pollinators including hummingbirds love the flowers but deer leave it alone.

Bluebeard makes a great cut flower, too. Shrubs, like lilacs, provide fragrance, blooms and interest. Here are 10 types to choose from, including dogwoods, flowering quince, magnolia, and forsythia.