Salix ‘Boydii’
An upright shrub with gnarled branches and veined grey-green leaves. Rarely produces dark grey catkins in early spring.
Salix arbuscula
This plant produces an effective close mat of green leaves which are glaucous underneath. Long slender catkins.
Salix apoda
An interesting shrub with silvery catkins becoming pinky-orange as they mature.
Salix alpina
A dwarf, prostrate shrub with rounded leaves and slender grey catkins in spring.
Ruta graveolens ‘Variegata’
A rounded evergreen shrub with aromatic glaucous blue-green leaves, variegated creamy white. Dull yellow cup-shaped flowers.
Ruta graveolens ‘Jackman’s Blue’
A rounded evergreen shrub with aromatic, intense glaucous blue-green leaves. Dull yellow cup-shaped flowers.
Ruta graveolens
A rounded evergreen shrub with aromatic glaucous blue-green leaves. Dull yellow cup-shaped flowers.
Ruscus aculeatus
A native subshrub with upright stems of spiny tipped dark green leaves. Inconspicuous greenish white flowers are followed by showy red berries from late summer to winter.
Rubus ulmifolius ‘Bellidiflorus’
An open shrub with long arching thorny stems and dark green leaves. Pretty double pink flowers from mid to late summer.
Rubus tricolor
A prostrate shrub with red bristly stems and heart-shaped, glossy, dark green leaves. Pretty saucer-shaped white flowers in summer, followed by red fruit.
Rubus thibetanus
A thicket-forming shrub with white arching stems and dark green leaves. Pretty saucer-shaped purple-red flowers in summer, followed by black fruit.
Rubus spectabilis ‘Olympic Double’
A thicket-forming shrub with glossy, dark green leaves. Pretty double, bright purple-pink flowers in mid-spring.