More Hedging

I talk about:

Escallonia ‘Red dream’ is a small, bushy, evergreen shrub with small, glossy leaves. From mid-summer to early autumn, it bears small, red, tubular flowers. Making a low garden evergreen hedge.

‘Gloire de Versailles’ is a vigorous medium-sized deciduous shrub of rounded habit, with broadly oval, light green leaves to 8cm in length, and large panicles of scented powder-blue flowers

Elaeagnus ebbingei with dark green leaves with silvery undersides and fragrant, creamy-white autumn flowers. The leaves have fragrance in Autumn.

Myrtus communis tarentina is a small evergreen shrub of dense growth, with small, narrowly ovate leaves, and pink buds opening to white flowers followed by white berries in a hot summer.

Choisya ternata Aztec Pearl is a small evergreen shrub of open rounded habit, with bright green leaves composed of 3-5 slender leaflets. Flowers to 3cm in width, fragrant, white, tinged pink in bud, in small clusters in late spring, and again in autumn.

Viburnum tinus is a large, evergreen shrub with dark green, oval leaves. Clusters of small, creamy-white flowers, often pink-tinged in bud, are produced over a long period in late winter and spring, followed by blue-black berries

Ilex aquifolium ‘Golden Queen’ or Holly is a small, evergreen tree or shrub with broad, spiny, ovate dark-green leaves boldly margined in golden-yellow. In spring and summer it bears small, dull white flowers.