Be tempted! There is always a space where you could plant a shrub. Unlike herbaceous perennials, which die back to the ground each winter, they provide a permanent 3-dimensional structure, forming a backdrop to their more ephemeral neighbours. Some shrubs are easy to grow or provide particular interest. Some have an extended flowering season & others provide additional colour or structure at different times of the year. Fragrant Collection contains 9 bare root plants (3 of each): Philadelphus ' Virginal'
- This deciduous shrub deserves a place in every garden, producing loose racemes of highly fragrant, double, pure white blooms from early to mid-summer. It's upright-growing, fully hardy, & very vigorous, so needs to be given plenty of room to grow. Height 3m. Wistera sinensis
- A vigorous-growing, long-lived, deciduous woody climber bearing pendulous racemes of fragrant, pea-like, bluish-lilac flowers in spring & early summer. Renowned for its superior fragrance & flower colour. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Height up to 9m. Harmful if eaten. (Photo: Piers Nye) Deutzia scabra
- An upright-growing, deciduous shrub with arching branches, peeling, pale brown bark, dark green leaves & dense panicles of fragrant, single, star-shaped, white or pink-flushed flowers from early to mid summer. Height 2m.