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Shrubs: Garden Workhorses
Shrubs are extremely versatile and hard-working, often forming the framework of a landscape. Some are low-growing and others are as tall and large as trees. They make excellent privacy hedges, foundations, and evergreen backdrops. Like trees, they can highlight attractive views or screen unsightly views. They can also help direct circulation and deflect wind.
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These shrubs are suitable for our summer-dry climate and grow throughout Marin County. They are as attractive as they are versatile.
If you need an unassuming green backdrop, consider:
• coffeeberry (Frangula californica)
• sweet olive (Osmanthus fragrans)
• Pittosporum
If you want to dial things up, consider a lovely flowering shrub:
• Cestrum 'Newelii' that blooms all year
• Grevillea 'Noellii' that lures hummingbirds
• a fragrant mock orange (Choisya ternata)
• a bronze-leaved fringe flower (Loropetalum)