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Shrubs

Garden shrubs are easy to grow and add year-round interest to your garden. Not only beautiful, many flowering shrubs are perfect for pollinators. With big blooming Hydrangeas, butterfly-magnet Buddleias, fragrant Choisya and a great selection of evergreen shrubs – we have a shrub for every situation.

Bare Root Shrubs

Bare root shrubs offer an affordable way to add low maintenance shrubs to your garden. Bare root evergreen shrubs provid...
Bare root shrubs offer an affordable way to add lo...
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Wisteria Plants

Wisteria is one of the most beautiful plants of the springtime, with hanging stems full of purple-mauve flowers. This pl...
Wisteria is one of the most beautiful plants of th...
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Camelia Plant

A popular choice for a winter/spring garden, Camellia plants will provide colour when there is little else flowering in ...
A popular choice for a winter/spring garden, Camel...
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Ceanothus Plant

Grow Ceanothus plants for a truly impressive flowering display! These showy shrubs can be grown as ground cover, free-st...
Grow Ceanothus plants for a truly impressive flowe...
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Choisya Plant

Choisya is a wonderful evergreen shrub and so easy to grow. Originating in Mexico, Choisya are more commonly known as Me...
Choisya is a wonderful evergreen shrub and so easy...
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Forsythia Plant

Light up your garden with the bright yellow blooms of Forsythia! Yellow flowers appear along the bare branches in early ...
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Hibiscus Plant

Hibiscus plants are very showy, with large trumpet-like, lobed or double flowers in a wide range of colours. Hibiscus pl...
Hibiscus plants are very showy, with large trumpet...
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Hydrangea Plants

Ever popular Hydrangeas are well known for the ability for their flowers to change colour, from pink through to blue, de...
Ever popular Hydrangeas are well known for the abi...
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Lonicera Plant

Lonicera (Honeysuckle) plants are beautiful climbers and are brilliant for covering bare or unsightly areas. Our hardy L...
Lonicera (Honeysuckle) plants are beautiful climbe...
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Magnolia Plant

Magnolia trees and plants are an icon of spring and summer, with their amazing goblet- or star-shaped shaped flowers. Ma...
Magnolia trees and plants are an icon of spring an...
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Philadelphus Plant

If you’re looking for showy flowers with heavily scented blooms, Philadelphus is well worth growing. Known also as mock ...
If you’re looking for showy flowers with heavily s...
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Physocarpus Plant

Looking for fabulous foliage? Physocarpus are available in leaf colours from light golden yellow to rich deep purple. Co...
Looking for fabulous foliage? Physocarpus are avai...
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Pieris Plant

Looking for year-round interest in your garden? Then Pieris is for you! Pieris has bright red new growth in the spring, ...
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Potentilla Plant

Potentilla originates from high alpine and sub-arctic regions and this hardy, compact little shrub thrives in cold clima...
Potentilla originates from high alpine and sub-arc...
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Rhododendron & Azalea Plants

Rhododendrons and Azaleas are both from the Rhododendron family. Rhododendron and Azaleas come in so many varieties and ...
Rhododendrons and Azaleas are both from the Rhodod...
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Clematis Plant

Dramatic, hardy, deciduous Clematis plants more than live up to their title 'Queen of Climbers'! A must for every garden...
Dramatic, hardy, deciduous Clematis plants more th...
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Berberis Plant

Often known as barberry bushes, berberis will add eye-catching colour to your garden, with colour-changing foliage that ...
Often known as barberry bushes, berberis will add ...
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Buddleia Plant

Want to attract butterflies, bees and other pollinators to your garden? Buddleia or Buddleja plants bloom with attractiv...
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Architectural Shrubs

Architectural shrubs have a strong and distinctive shape – with interesting foliage, bark or berries – and will add fasc...
Architectural shrubs have a strong and distinctive...
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Conifers

Looking to plant trees or a hedge for privacy or to screen a noisy road? Conifers are a popular choice because their thi...
Looking to plant trees or a hedge for privacy or t...
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Evergreen Shrubs

Want to spruce up your garden without the bother of maintenance? Our beautiful evergreen shrubs hold their foliage throu...
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Flowering Shrubs

Flowering shrubs will enrich your garden with their delicate blooms and fabulous foliage. We have seasonal varieties as ...
Flowering shrubs will enrich your garden with thei...
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Ground Cover Shrubs

Want to spruce up your garden without the bother of maintenance? Our beautiful evergreen shrubs hold their foliage throu...
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Scented Shrubs

Want to fill your garden with delicious scented flowers? Our scented shrubs include Choisya, Daphne, Weigela, Wisteria, ...
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View All Shrubs

Want to add year-round structure and colour in your garden? Our selection of shrubs will form the perfect backdrop to yo...
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Shrubs FAQs

Shrubs provide shape and structure in the garden. Evergreen shrubs are the backbone of every great hedge whilst flowering shrubs like daphne and viburnum provide fantastic scent and colour during winter when nothing else in the garden is stirring. Most shrubs are easy to grow but if you need a bit of extra help planting, pruning or picking the right shrub for the right place, head over to the Suttons blog to get some expert advice.

What are shrubs?

Shrubs are perennial plants that keep a permanent woody structure above ground all year round. They’re smaller than trees and tend to produce multiple woody stems from their base unlike trees which usually produce one. Shrubs can be evergreen or deciduous making them useful for lots of different places and situations in the garden.

What shrubs grow in shade?

There are plenty of shrubs that thrive in shade. Mahonia aquifolium ‘Apollo’ is a good choice for planting in full shade, like woodland plantings under mature trees. The bright yellow flowers in early spring and attractive purple berries in summer are a welcome sight. Hydrangea and viburnum shrubs are a great choice for highlighting partial shade. If you have acidic soil, choose pieris or azalea which do very well in ericaceous soil with lovely blooms and eye-catching autumn leaf colours.

How to prune shrubs?

It’s simple to prune shrubs as long as you do it at the right time. Generally it’s best to prune deciduous shrubs during the winter months when they’re in their dormancy. Take summer flowering deciduous shrubs like buddleja back in late winter, cutting stems back to two or three buds just before they come into leaf. Cut back winter flowering deciduous shrubs like weigela after flowering is over in late autumn, cutting back each flowering stem to two or three buds.

Evergreen shrubs like holly and viburnum need different pruning. Go for it after flowering is over. Prune back your evergreen shrub, making sure to remove congested branches as well as diseased or dying foliage. If you want to do a harsh prune or reduce a very overgrown evergreen shrub, it’s best to wait until early spring before buds break. Always use clean, sharp equipment to prune your shrubs.