The Ultimate Winter Hardy Shrub Collection

This Hardy Shrub Collection will provide your garden with year-round interest. With vibrant colours, textures, heights, and shapes, we have brought together simply fabulous varieties, which are garden staples! Whether filling beds or borders gaps or planting as a standalone pot specimen, they grow rapidly and provide the garden with spectacular displays years after year.

In this collection:

• Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’: A great hedging plant with spiked branches. Yellow flowers appear in late spring, while purple foliage offers perfect autumn colour. Grows up to H150cm x W150cm


• Syringa vulgaris: The common Lilac produces fragrant, lavender-purple to light blue blooms from May. Hardy, and deciduous. Grows up to H800cm x W800cm


• Hypericum Hidcote: Masses of saucer-shaped, buttery yellow flowers from early to late autumn contrast against this compact and bushy semi-evergreen foliage. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Grows up to H150cm x W150cm


• Deutzia scabra: The ‘Fuzzy Deutzia’ is a native of Japan and China. Smothers itself in pure white fragrant flowers in June. Grows up to H400cm x W250cm


• Potentilla Yellow: A tall, upright shrub with rich green foliage, smothered in yellow flowers from late spring to autumn. Robust and drought-tolerant even in exposed conditions. Grows up to H150cm x W100cm


• Spirea douglasii: Part of the rose family, often know as ‘Rose Spirea’. Easy to grow with pink flowers in early summer, ideal for small spaces. Grows up to H250cm x W250cm


• Weigela rosea: A garden shrub with fabulous pink flowers in May, June, and July. Grows up to H250cm x W250cm


• Forsythia intermedia ‘Spectabilis’: A spectacular early season shrub with bright yellow blooms. Easy to grow and can be trimmed into a small hedge. Grows up to H300cm x W180cm


• Tamarix tetandra: The ‘Tamarisk’ or ‘Salt Cedar’ is an upright, deciduous shrub that arches gracefully with dark branches and needle-like foliage. A superb focal point that produces masses of feathery plumes of tiny pink blossom from April to May. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Grows up to H800cm x W800cm


• Philadelphus coronarius: The ‘Mock Orange’ will be clothed in a profusion of creamy white, fabulously fragrant flowers through June and July. Grows up to H250cm x W150cm


• Cornus alba: The ‘Red-Barked Dogwood’ provides autumn colour with bright red vertical branches. In summer it leafs up and has soft pink flowers in the middle of summer. Grows up to H250cm x W250cm


• Symphoricarpos albus: The ‘Common Snowberry’ has berries that provide much-needed winter food for wildlife. Grows up to H150cm x W150cm

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