What are low maintenance all year round shrubs?
Popular choices include photinia ‘red robin’, camellia, skimmia, pittosporum, hebe, choisya, and box (buxus) — all reliable, low-maintenance shrubs that offer lasting texture and colour. Any list of the best evergreen shrubs would be incomplete without gorgeous lavender. With scented silver-green foliage and lovely flowers in shades of purple, lilac and pink, this well-loved hardy shrub is attractive, versatile, deeply fragrant and acts as a magnet for bees and other pollinators.
What shrubs stay green all year?
Some of the most common evergreen shrubs include arborvitae, boxwood, false cypress, holly, juniper, wintercreeper, azalea and rhododendron. Popular choices include Photinia ‘Red Robin’, Camellia, Skimmia, Pittosporum, Hebe, Choisya, and Box (Buxus) — all reliable, low-maintenance shrubs that offer lasting texture and colour.Hedging plants Hedges can be naturally dry places, so starting with a drought-resistant plant choice means a thriving hedge whatever the weather outlook. Top choices for tall flowering hedges include bottlebrush (Callistemon spp. Correa alba), grevillea, sasanqua camellia, photinia or westringia.