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 and sycamore tree are pictured on the right-hand side of the image, while the purple leaves of the smoke bush dominate the left.