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 in the centre of the image, while a group of dwarf conifers are growing on the right, in a rock garden / rockery.
