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Fast-growing, hardy and evergreen - these are characteristics that many garden owners and hobby gardeners look for in shrubs. A comprehensive list of corresponding plants makes the selection easier.
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yolk barberry(Berberis stenophylla)
- Growth: loose, tall
- Growth height: 150 to 200 centimeters
- Growth width: 150 to 200 centimeters
- Growth rate: 30 to 50 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, yellow-orange, from the end of May to June
- Foliage: evergreen, dark green, glossy
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: lush flowering, also ideal as a hedge plant, very undemanding, possible freezing back
ivy bush(Hedera helix "Arborescens")
- Growth: upright, compact, dense, bushy, not climbing
- Growth height: 150 to 200 centimeters
- Growth width: 150 to 200 centimeters
- Growth rate: ten to fifteen centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, yellow between September and October
- Foliage: all year round, dark green
- Light: partial shade to shade
- Special features: decorative glossy leaves
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Firethorn(Pyracantha coccinea)
"Red Column"
- Growth: tightly upright, very fast-growing
- Growth height: 200 to 300 centimeters
- Growth width: 150 to 250 centimeters
- Growth rate: 20 to 40 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, white, cupped, from May to June
- Bright red berries in autumn
- Foliage: green all year round, dark green
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: must be sheltered from the wind, ideal as a hedge and solitary plant, very hardy variety, robust, blooms profusely
"Soleil d'Or"
- Growth: upright, wide growth, bushy
- Growth height: 175 to 225 centimeters
- Growth width: 100 to 150 centimeters
- Growth rate: 20 to 50 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, white, cupped, from the end of May to June
- Yellow berries in autumn
- Foliage: evergreen, dark green
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: must be sheltered from the wind, very easy to care for, ideal as a hedge and solitary plant
sparkleaf(Photinia davidiana)
- Habit: broadly bushy, upright, tall ornamental shrub
- Growth height: 200 to 300 centimeters
- Growth width: 100 to 200 centimeters
- Growth rate: 30 to 50 centimeters per year
- flowers: white, in June
- Foliage: Evergreen, dark green, glossy, older foliage turns orange-red in fall
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: robust, bee pasture
gold droplets(Chiastophyllum oppositifolium)
- Growth: rosette-like, clumpy, loose, short stature
- Growth height: 15 to 20 centimeters
- Growth width: 20 to 30 centimeters
- Growth rate: 15 to 20 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, yellow, racemose, overhanging inflorescence, from June to July
- Foliage: evergreen, green, no autumn color
- Light: penumbra
- Special features: loves stony locations, very hardy and fast-growing shrub species
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sky bamboo(Nandina domestica)
"Magical Lemon and Lime"
- Growth type: compact
- Growth height: 70 to 100 centimeters
- Growth width: 70 to 100 centimeters
- Growth rate: 10 to 25 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, white, in panicles, from July to August
- Red berries in autumn
- Foliage: Evergreen, fresh shoots lemon yellow, then lime green, orange-red autumn colour
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: suitable for planting in tubs and outdoors, sensitive to wind, cold protection recommended at very low temperatures
Sienna Sunrise
- Growth: upright, compact, narrow, bushy
- Growth height: 90 to 120 centimeters
- Growth width: 30 to 60 centimeters
- Growth rate: 10 to 40 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, white, in panicles, from April to May
- Red berries in autumn
- Foliage: Evergreen foliage, deep green with red tips, reddish fall color
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: must be sheltered from the wind, suitable for container planting
Japan holly(Ilex crenata)
- Habit: shrubby, densely branched, spreading
- Growth height: 200 to 350 centimeters
- Growth width: 100 to 300 centimeters
- Growth rate: 25 to 50 centimeters per year
- Flowers: inconspicuous, white, from May to June
- Fruit decorations in autumn
- Foliage: evergreen, dark green
- Light: sun to shade
- Special features: very hardy and easy to care for, very fast-growing shoots
Japanese flower skimmia(Skimmia japonica "Rubella")
- Growth type: compact, shrub-like
- Growth height: 60 to 100 centimeters
- Growth width: 100 to 150 centimeters
- Growth rate: five to 20 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, white to pink, in panicles, from April to May
- Foliage: evergreen, dark green, glossy, laurel-like
- Light: partial shade to shade
- Special features: also ideal as a tub plant, hardy to minus 17.3 degrees Celsius (hardiness zone 7)
A NOTICE:
The Japanese blossom skimmia should also be checked for soil moisture in winter and watered if necessary because it must not dry out.
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cherry laurel(Prunus laurocerasus)
"Mano"
- Growth type: rounded
- Growth height: 100 to 150 centimeters
- Growth width: 100 to 150 centimeters
- Growth rate: 10 to 25 centimeters per year
- flowers: simple, white, from May to June
- Foliage: evergreen foliage, dark green, reddish shoots
- Light: sun to shade
- Special features: insect-friendly, sensitive to wind, very easy to care for, also suitable for tubs
- Caution: poisonous berries
"hibani"
- Growth type: upright, bushy
- Growth height: 200 to 300 centimeters
- Growth width: 100 to 150 centimeters
- Growth rate: 30 to 40 centimeters per year
- Flowers: inconspicuous, white, raceme-shaped, in May
- Fruit decorations in autumn
- Foliage: evergreen, initially reddish, later dark green, shiny, no autumn color
- Light: sun to shade
- Special features: suitable as a container plant, hardy to about minus 35 degrees Celsius, plant protected from the wind
"Green Torch"
- Growth type: upright
- Growth height: 200 to 250 centimeters
- Growth width: 80 to 140 centimeters
- Growth rate: 20 to 30 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, creamy white, raceme-shaped, from early April to May
- Fruit decorations in autumn
- Foliage: evergreen, dark green, no autumn color
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: easy to cut, very hardy, suitable as a solitary and hedge plant
creep spindle(Euonymus fortunei var. radicans)
- Growth type: lying on the ground, creeping, climbing shrub
- Growth height: 20 to 30 centimeters
- Growth width: 80 to 120 centimeters
- Growth rate: ten to twenty centimeters per year
- flowers: inconspicuous
- Foliage: evergreen, turning orange-red in autumn
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: fast-growing plant, ideal as ground cover or as a small individual shrub, undemanding in terms of care
liguster(Ligustrum ovalifolium "Argenteum")
- Growth: upright, slightly vase-like, dense
- Growth height: 60 to 200 centimeters
- Growth width: 60 to 200 centimeters
- Growth rate: 20 to 40 centimeters per year
- Flowers: inconspicuous, white, in panicles, from May to June
- Small round, bluish-black berries in autumn
- Foliage: evergreen foliage, grey-green, white margins
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: very robust, extremely cold-tolerant and easy to care for
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moss juniper(Juniperus sabina "Rockery Gem")
- Growth type: low-growing, horizontal branches, low-growing coniferous shrub
- Growth height: 35 to 50 centimeters
- Growth width: 200 to 350 centimeters
- Growth rate: 30 to 40 centimeters per year
- Hardy blue-green needles
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: Deep roots, no special care requirements, conditionally hardy - protection advisable in long-lasting cold
Jewelry mahonia(Mahonia bealei)
- Growth: upright, few branches
- Growth height: 100 to 200 centimeters
- Growth width: 100 to 200 centimeters
- Growth rate: 15 to 30 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, light yellow, raceme-shaped, from the end of February to May
- Blue-black fruits in autumn
- Evergreen shrubs
- Foliage: blue-green, thorny teeth, reddish autumn colour
- Light: partial shade to shade
- Special features: very hardy, insect-friendly, deep-rooting, likes sandy gravel soil, can be planted in containers
snowball(Viburnum bodnantense 'Charles Lamont')
- Habit: dense, bushy, upright, "airy" branched
- Growth height: 200 to 250 centimeters
- Growth width: 200 to 250 centimeters
- Growth rate: 15 to 35 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, pink, in panicles, from January to April
- Foliage: deciduous, blue-green, thorny teeth, reddish autumn colour
- Light: partial shade to shade
- Special features: not suitable for tub cultivation, does not tolerate winter sun
A NOTICE:
The winter quickball 'Charles Lamont' is a deciduous, deciduous plant, but by the winter flowering the shrub adds color to gardens and shouldn't be included in the listing miss.
snowball(Viburnum tinus "Lisa Rose")
- Growth type: dense, well-branched shrub, upright
- Growth height: 80 to 150 centimeters
- Growth width: 60 to 100 centimeters
- Growth rate: 15 to 30 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, pink-white, early November to mid-April
- Foliage: evergreen, mid-green
- Light: sun to shade
- Special features: very fragrant, can be planted as a solitaire, very hardy shrubs
sack flower(Ceanothus impressus 'Victoria')
- Growth: bushy, branched
- Growth height: 80 to 100 centimeters
- Growth width: 50 to 70 centimeters
- Growth rate: ten to 40 centimeters per year
- Flowers: simple, deep blue, in panicles, from the end of May to July
- Foliage: evergreen, dark green
- Light: Sun to semi-shade
- Special features: robust, very fast-growing, ideal for beds and tubs, hardy to minus 17.8 degrees Celsius (hardiness zone 7)
- numerous other fast-growing sackflower shrubs are available, none of which are evergreen
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peat myrtle(Pernettya mucronata)
- Growth type: low-growing shrub
- Growth height: up to 40 centimeters
- Growth width: up to 50 centimetres, wild varieties in beds up to 150 centimetres
- Growth rate: five to ten centimeters per year
- Flowers: mostly white, bell-shaped, from May to June
- Berries appear in shades of white, red and lilac from September to December/January
- Foliage: evergreen leaves, dark green, glossy
- Light: sunny to semi-shady
- Special features: ideal for planting in beds and containers, conditionally hardy - in pots for a short time down to minus 10 degrees Celsius, in the garden bed down to minus 15 degrees Celsius, sensitive to frost
A NOTICE:
A fast-growing peat myrtle may occasionally freeze back in winter. As a result, it does not die off automatically, but can sprout again in spring after cutting back.
grape myrtle(Leucothoe walteri)
"rainbow"
- Growth type: small shrub
- Growth height: 100 to 130 centimeters
- Growth width: 80 to 120 centimeters
- Growth rate: six to 15 centimeters per year
- Flowers: fragrant, simple, white, racemose, from May to June
- Foliage: Solid green, mottled green-pink or red, burgundy fall foliage
- Light: sun to shade
- Special features: needs slightly acidic to acidic garden soil, very hardy variety
"Scarletta"
- Habit of growth: small shrub, wider than tall, bushy, dense
- Growth height: 30 to 40 centimeters
- Growth width: 60 to 80 centimeters
- Growth rate: five to ten centimeters per year
- Flowers: white, fragrant, from May to June
- Foliage: Evergreen foliage, red, bronze shoots, scarlet in spring, green in summer, wine red in autumn
- Light: partial shade to shade
- Special features: ideal single or group plant, also suitable for moor gardens, requires constant soil moisture, fast-growing shrub variety
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