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Viburnum opulus ‘Compactum’

Reaches 1.5m (5ft) tall and wide, has lacecap white flowers in spring, berries and red foliage in autumn.

Hebe ‘Silver Queen’

Evergreen with eye-catching variegation and lovely starburst purple flowers in summer and autumn. Grows to 1m (3¼ft) tall.

Rhododendron ‘Blaauw’s Pink’

Up to 1m (3¼ft) tall, this evergreen rhododendron is covered with salmon-pink flowers in late spring.

Ceanothus ‘Marie Simon’

A deciduous, pink-flowered plant with big leaves and fluffy flowers from summer, grows to 1.5m (3¼ft) tall.