What small shrubs can be shaped?
Boxwood, yew, and privet are the top answers to “what kind of shrubs can you shape” because they grow dense, trim clean, and hold their form. Some shrubs, like rosemary or lavender, let you get playful with spirals or mounds but still stay low-maintenance if clipped right. Evergreen shrubs. Evergreen shrubs add year-round structure. In winter they really come to the fore, when many other plants have faded into the background. They can be used as a backdrop to borders, clipped into formal shapes, and often make beautiful dense hedges.
What shrub to plant next to a house?
Hydrangeas: Some of the most popular deciduous, flowering shrubs available, hydrangeas provide structure and color. Roses: Easy-to-grow landscape roses often bloom for months providing brilliant color around the house. 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.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.