Designing shrub borders

The underpinnings

Well, Borders #1 sparked a good discussion:

Here are just some of the things we touched on in the comments:

• the issues of island beds and what to match with a lemony-leaved elder

• Ilex ‘Golden King’ and its merits against a yew hedge

• the advantages of stooling shrubs

• the idea of all these shrubs acting as different punctuation marks through the garden as …