If you prefer small evergreen plants, there are species that also requirelittle if any pruning, including gumpo azaleas and dwarf yaupon holly. When to prune?Broad-leaved, spring-flowering evergreens should be pruned right after they bloom in the spring, just like spring-flowering deciduous shr...
I was impressed with the bold modern planting in a garden opened for the NGS in East Sheen, grasses softening the structure given by evergreen balls along the border’s edge where it met the lawn. Reading matter this month: A Country Life publication from 1966, Miss Jekyll, Portrait of ...