Any favorite shrubs 10-12 ft, with flowers?

We have a spot on the south side of our fence(next to street that we would like to place a flowering shrub
with the possiblity of perennials or annual around base. Our hope is that this will be a screen of sorts also. We are in zone 9, so it will receive a lot of sun and warm weather.
Thank you for any suggestions!
Dee

dee41 - im not knowledgable about shrubs or flowers for that matter, but i have two butterfly bushes on the front side of my property. they are about 6 to 7 feet high and attract many butterflysw. i cut them down each spring and they grow up to that height each year. probably not what your looking for but just throw it out there for you.

If I lived in zone 9, I'd plant a crepe or crape myrtle. With age they can have multiple trunks with the branching higher up allowing for plantings underneath. I don't know how much space you have but I guess they can get quite big.

http://www.crapemyrtletrails.com/aboutcrapes.htm

This is a good site, be sure to heed their advice on pruning. They also list varieties by heights.

Thank you for your input, the suggestion of the crepe myrtle
and the butterfly are great.
I appreciate your replys.
Dee41

Thank you for your input, the suggestion of the crepe myrtle
and the butterfly bush are great!
I appreciate your replies.
Dee41

I am a zone 9er also and something that has worked for me is hibiscus trees. They are georgeous and grow 8 to 10 feet. Those I have seem to bloom almost all year. I love them because they are tall enough and bushy, the blooms are great one is a double yellow and one is a lipstick pink. The nice thing is that I can still plant flowers around them and I get both the privacy and the flowers. Hibiscus trees get 8to10 ft tall and about 8ft. wide. One of mine is pushing 9ft. wide. They are easy to grow. I have one in the desert sun, one in semi-shade and one next to my pond where its pretty wet.
Good Luck!

dee41, zone 9 is very large and gets differing amounts of frost so be careful. Buddleia (butterfly bush) is deciduous and Crepe myrtle and hibiscus can be frost tender.

Other suggestions: the ever ubiquitous oleander -- altho drought tolerant, it will flower for an incredibly long time with regular water. We have a white oleander trained as a standard, probably 2-3 yrs old when we bought it, now has been in the ground for an additional year. It started blooming five months ago and is still going strong. Watch out for oleander aphids, though.

Hopseed bush (dodonea) comes in both green and purple leafed varieties, grows very fast and can also be found trained as a standard if you need any small trees anywhere. Doesn't flower but is evergreen and very tough.

Another lesser known shrub is cestrum. They come in a variety of colors (red, yellow, orange & pink), but for virtual ever-blooming, the pink flowering variety takes the prize. We planted one 18 months ago and it's been out of bloom maybe four weeks total out of that time. Amazing plant, the hummers and butterflies adore it. Extremely tough and pest-free.

If the bed is truly frost-free then tibouchina is also a possibility. Tibouchina urvilleana has smaller leaves than T. heteromalla, plus a rather open rangy appearance when mature (which makes it easier to grow things at its feet), big intensely purple flowers that are real show stoppers.

Check out the Sunset Garden Guide for further suggestions; they are the most reliable reference for Western gardeners. Good luck!

Oleandar is poisonous, check it out carefully before you plant it. Ask at a county extension office (affiliated with your state University) they are impartial since they are not trying to sell you anything.

Oleanders indeed are extremely poisonous. I have 3 that are hudge between my neighbor and myself and between purning suckers on them and as you said fighting oleander aphids I wouldn't recommend them to anyone. Either they are droping flowers or leaves its seems like. I had one cut down below the ground twice and still can't get rid of it and can't use something to "sterilize" the ground because it was too close to other plants and I'm afraid to ruin my other vines and plants.Someone told me to take a stake and pour diesel fuel into the hole.Anyone heard of this one??
So far I've never had either my hibiscus or crepe myrtle suffer with frost. That lucky Tucson weather I guess.

How about pomegranate - flowers, beautiful fruit and tasty too. Trims into a very nice hedge.

LittleShima,
Yep,diesel fuel (kerosene) is commonly mixed with herbicides for tougher solutions.