Evergreen shrubs offer landscaping layout factors that are important. The leaves remain on the bushes through the year, offering a display that is permanent for views that are ugly. Showy flowers adaptable designs as well as various hues create accents to get a backyard that is inland or coastal. It is possible to edge driveways and your paths with simple-to-treatment for bushes which do not block your view of oncoming traffic.
Bushes Less Than 2-Feet
Variegated boxleaf euonymus (Euonymus japonicus âMicrophyllus Variegatusâ) grows as a a tight shrub achieving 24-inches tall and one foot wide. The leaves are trimmed by white colour. The Environment Zones with this bush of sunset contain 4 through H-1 and 41.
Shrubs 2 to 3 Feet Tall
Turnerâs Pitt mock orange (Pittosporum tobira âTurnerâs Variegated Dwarfâ) reaches 30-inches tall and spread up to 36-inches broad. A spherical shrub is formed by the shiny green leaves with pale-yellow edges. This shrub grows nicely in the Environment of Sunset Zones 8 through 2-4. Variegated rockspray cotoneaster (Cotoneaster horizontalis âVariegatusâ) grows to 3-feet tall and spreads 8-feet broad in environment zones A-3, 2-B, 3 through 11, 14 through 24 and 31 through 41. The white-edged leaves produce a Rose red tint in the fall when the weather turns cooler. This shrub attracts other birds and song birds to the house.
Bushes three or four Feet Tall
Ivory Jade euonymus (Euonymus fortunei âIvory Jadeâ) grows in Sunset’s Environment Zones 2-B, 3 through 17 and 28 through 41. This broad-leaf evergreen reaches 6 feet broad and 3 feet tall. The leaves are edged with white, which change pink-ish in winter. Variegated dwarf weigela (Weigela florida âVariegata Nanaâ) types a spherical shrub 3-feet tall and 3 feet broad. Yellow and cream edges shade the light-green leaves. Zones because of this weigela are 1 through 14 and 11 .
Shrubs More Than 4 4-Feet
Lily-of-the-Valley shrub (Pieris japonica âFlaming Silverâ) is also called Japanese Andromeda. In the Environment Zones 2-B, 3 through 9 and 14 through 17, of Sunset appear red with As the leaves mature, they change to green with white margins. Variegated fake holly (Osmanthus heterophyllus âVariegatusâ) types a mounding shrub made up of erect branches. The leathery leaves with edges resemble leaves. The fake holly grows best in zones 5 through 10, 14 through 24 and 28 through 33.