Shrubs

How do you define a shrub? Most of the plants we grow could be defined as a shrub – a woody plant that has lower growth and is smaller than a tree. We are known for manicuring plants and redirecting their growth for sculptural effect thus deliberately forcing them into this category. This is the art of creative maintenance: where a shrub is trained and shaped into exciting different forms to become more than simply the sum of its parts (but not a tree). Our range of different Pittosporum tenuifolium or Osmanthus are good examples of this – as are our Ligustrum japonicum ‘Texanum’, dwarf pines or collection of Hebes which we like to train into pillows, blobs, and balls. It’s an extremely broad category.