Photo of a group of mainly evergreen shrubs and one or two deciduous shrubs, pictured growing in the dappled shade / sunshine in a garden border. The shrubs include aucuba japonica, berberis, elaeagnus, hebe, hypericum, lonicera, photinia, potentilla, smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'), spirea, viburnum and weigela. Each spring, the shrubs are pruned into curved, rounded shapes with a hedge trimmer. A young silver birch tree is pictured on the left-hand side of the image, while a group of conifers are growing on the right.
