What are the best flowering evergreen shrubs?
What are the best evergreen bushes? For structure and screening, options like prunus laurocerasus and photinia × fraseri ‘red robin’ are popular choices. For fragrance and winter flowers, sarcococca hookeriana is hard to beat. For compact, formal shapes, buxus sempervirens remains a classic choice. 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 are the best small shrubs for sunny borders?
Some of our favourite small plants for the front of borders are ceanothus, cistus rock rose, euonymus, hebe, dwarf varieties of hypericum, lavender, leucothoe, pieris, potentilla, skimmia and vinca. Cistus plants are a great summer-flowering shrub for a hot, sunny spot that love free-draining bank or gravel garden in a chalky or alkaline soil. Lavender is another with its distinctive look and instantly recognisable scent, growing best in lots of sun and a well drained soil.
What’s the fastest growing evergreen for privacy?
Thuja ‘Green Giant’ (Arborvitae) Thuja ‘Green Giant’, or Green Giant Arborvitae, is a fast-growing evergreen prized for its dense, pyramidal form and vibrant green foliage. Ideal for privacy screens and windbreaks, it thrives in various soils and climates. For rapid privacy solutions, few plants can rival the Green Giant Arborvitae. Known for its fast growth and dense foliage, this evergreen is perfect for screening out neighbors and undesirable views. With a height of 20′-30′ and a width of 10′-15′, it provides ample coverage in full sun to partial shade.