LI/BALI '100 Top Shrubs for Amenity Landscapes' - DON'T USE THEM!

The UK Lanscape Institute and the UK Horticultural Trades Association published the list, below, in 2007 - but very few of them should ever be used for this purpose. This is because an 'Amenity Landscape' should be managed as a semi-natural habitat. It should not be a dumping ground for low-maintenance flowering shrubs. Many of the shrubs deserve their place in gardens, which are enclosed places. But we should not make 'middle landscapes'; instead we should use native plants to create ecological communities. This approach is:

• cheaper
• more sustainable
• better for wildlife
• more beautiful

 

Amelanchier canadensis

Aucuba japonica 'Crotonifolia'Berberis darwinii

Berberis thunbergii

Berberis thunbergii 'Nana'

Brachyglottis 'Sunshine'

Buxus sempervirens

Buxus sempervirens 'Suffruticosa'

Caryopteris clandonensis

Ceanothus 'Blue Mound'

Ceonothus thyrsiflorus repens

Ceratostigma willmottianum

Choisya 'Aztec Pearl'

Choisya ternata

Choisya ternata 'Sundance'

Cistus 'Silver Pink'

Cornus alba & cultivars

Cornus sanguinea 'Mid Winter Fire'

Cornus stolonifera 'Flaviramea'

Corylus avellanaCotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'

Cotoneaster suecicus 'Skogholm'

Cotoneaster conspicuus 'Decorus'

Cotoneaster dammeri

Cotoneaster franchetii

Cotoneaster horizontalis

Cotoneaster microphyllus

Cotoneaster simonsii

Cytisus praecox 'Allgold'

Eleagnus pungens 'Maculata'

Eleagnus x ebbingei

Escallonia 'Apple Blossom'

Escallonia 'Red Elf'

Escallonia rubra 'Crimson Spire'

Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald Gaiety'

Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald 'n' Gold'

Genista lydia

Griselina littoralis

Hebe albicans

Hebe albicans 'Red Edge'Hebe 'Autumn Glory'

Hebe 'Mrs Winder'

Hebe pinguifolia 'Pagei'

Hebe rakaiensis

Hebe vernicosa

Hedera colchica 'Dentata Variegata'

Hedera helix

Hedera helix 'Green Ripple'

Hedera helix 'Hibernica'

Hypericum calycinum

Hypericum 'Hidcote'

Hypericum moserianum

Ilex aquifolium

Ilex aquifolium 'J C Van Tol'

Juniperus cvs eg 'Blue Carpet'

Lavandula angustifolia

Lavandula angustifolia ''Munstead'

Lavandula angustilolia 'Hidcote'

Lavandula stoechas 'Pedunculata'

Ligustrum ovalifolium 'Aureum'Lonicera nitida 'Baggesen's Gold'

Lonicera nitida 'Maigrun'

Lonicera pileata

Mahonia aquifolium

Mahonia japonica

Mahonia x media 'Charity'

Olearia hastii

Olearia macrodonta

Osmanthus burkwoodii

Pachysandra terminalis

Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Blue Spire'

Philadelphus 'Belle Etoile'

Philadelphus coronarius 'Aureus'

Phormium tenax 'Purpureum'

Photinia x fraseri 'Red Robin'

Potentilla fruticosa & cultivars

Prunus laurocerasus & cultivars

Prunus lusitanica

Pyracantha coccinea & cultivars

Ribes sanguineum & cultivarsRosa rugosa

Rosmarinus officinalis 'Miss Jessopp's Upright'

Rubus 'Betty Ashburner'

Rubus tricolor

Sambucus nigra 'Aurea'

Santolina chamaecyparissus

Sarcococca confusa

Skimmia japonica 'Rubella'

Spiraea arguta

Spiraea 'Goldflame'

Spiraea japonica 'Firelight'

Symphoricarpos chenaultii 'Hancock'

Ulex europaeus

Viburnum davidii

Viburnum opulus

Viburnum tinus and cultivars

Vinca major 'Variegata'

Vinca minor alba

Vinca minor 'Argenteovariegata'

Weigela florida 'Variegata'