
This common, mound-forming, evergreen shrub makes an attractive groundcover plant for a sunny, well-drained site.

This upright, deciduous hydrangea makes a gorgeous feature for a partly shady border with damp, good draining soil.

Since the colour quickly fades in full sun, this deciduous, shrubby cinquefoil does best in partial shade.

This clean, semi-prostrate evergreen shrub is an attractive groundcover plant for the front of a border in sun or part-shade.

The silken tassels of this upright, evergreen shrub, up to 20cm long, are a fabulous, long-lasting feature in the winter garden.

This slow-growing, upright, shrub is a 'male' wide range of holly that doesn't produce any fruit.

In mid to late spring, perfumed white flowers, sometimes tinged pink or red, open from red buds on dense panicles.

This award-winning, golden-leaved smoke bush is an excellent specimen plant for a sunny spot.

In May and June the branches of this fast-growing deciduous shrub are covered with sizable, snowball-like groups of white or green-tinted white flowers - hence its common name.

This spreading, deciduous shrub makes an excellent, informal, flowering hedge for a sunny, well-drained site.

It has dark green foliage which turn vivid red in fall, and insignificant summer flowers.

This yellow-spotted laurel is perfect for illuminating partly shady places of the garden.

Delicately scented, silvery-white fall flowers and lustrous, dark green foliage with a bold, dark yellow central mark.

A common compact, bushy shrub with classical green foliage and silky buds which open up to clean white, star-shaped flowers, sometimes faintly flushed pink.

This beautiful, winter-flowering, dense, evergreen shrub is perfect for a shady border or woodland garden.

This fast-growing shrub or small tree is ideal for creating a colourful splash in a sunny border.

This lovely, late flowering shrub is excellent for a sheltered, sunny, shrub or mixed border.

In cold places of the country this fast-growing tree mallow is best grown against a warm wall, to minimise damage due to wind and frost.

This is a robust shrub with attractive bright green leaves and will make a dramatic statement in a sunny, protected border.

Tree peonies, the Chinese national flower, have been cultivated for more than 1500 years.

Spreading, evergreen wall shrub with spiny, glossy dark green, holly-like foliage, charming in appearance when, in late summer, it is smothered with long, drooping, catkin-like racemes of vanilla-fragranced, greenish-white flowers.

Clusters of white flowers in June and bright green foliage with bold, milky margins, turning red-purple in fall.

Although this pretty, variegated shrub prefers fertile, good draining soil it will thrive almost anywhere.

Spikes of clean white flowers, topped with distinctive flag-like tufts from late spring to summer and grey-green, aromatic foliage.

The foliage are twisted, lance-shaped, classical green with light grey undersides and are produced at the same time as the light yellow catkins.

Pendent groups of sweetly scented, primrose-yellow flowers on bare stems in March and April followed by bronzed hazel-like foliage, maturing to bright green.

The scent of this winter honeysuckle is certain to stop you in your tracks! An invaluable shrub for those months when little else in the garden is flowering, it's best planted nearby an entrance or path.

This fast-growing, winter flowering shrub makes an excellent specimen plant for a sunny, well-drained border close to a house entrance or path.

A vase-shaped deciduous shrub with groups of sizable, perfumed, bright coppery-orange flowers on bare stems in December and January.

This robust, evergreen shrub makes a great centre piece plant for a sunny, well-drained gravel garden.