Evergreen shrubs are the backbone of your landscape. These are my fave evergreen shrubs to use with trees, plants and flowers in your mixed garden border.

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Evergreen shrubs bring life to dreary winter landscapes with their lush greenery. Evergreen bushes create an everlasting framework for seasonal garden plantings. Some evergreen flowering shrubs also produce colorful berries in fall.

Mixed herbaceous border containing Anthemis tinctoria 'E.C. Buxton', Salvia nemorosa 'Ostfriesland', Nepeta, Buddleia and clipped Box balls, Town Place, late June.

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The sculptural, textural, and colorfully steady presence of conifer trees is reassurance that the garden is there all year to enjoy.

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If you're looking to create a beautiful outdoor space, small evergreen shrubs can be an ideal choice for providing year-round color and texture. Besides, most of these evergreen shrubs can thrive in full sun while others prefer shade. So, if you want carefully chosen plants for your borders, and pots, or to brighten the front of your house then you'll love today's post. These plants will add beauty to your landscape design and are also low maintenance and require minimal pruning...

Year-round interest, spectacular color, and low maintenance make these 10 flowering evergreen shrubs the best plants money can buy.

Increase curb appeal — or just make a space you want to inhabit.