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One hardy species that looks nice and bushy is the Hebe. They are evergreen and several types have tiny leaves which at a glance are not so overscale that they offend the eye. One particular variety has a paler bluer leaf and has an open structure that looks very much like a small shrubby tree.
Last Summer I bought a very cheap job lot from Aldi, realised I ought to get more, went back and, you've guessed it, they were long gone. Homebase is selling off a variety of Hebes at half price near to me just now and the one ones on offer include 'Green Globe' which has very small leaves and is a neat mid green ball.  Hebes seem very tolerant of many growing conditions and don't object to pruning I have found. They don't complain if you carefully split a plant in two as long as each piece has enough root structure left. best of all, with the help of rooting hormone and a gritty compost, they strike easily from cuttings in late summer and autumn so you might from buying one plant with that aim in mind, end up with many.  Dai Pajero |
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Hebes
"Green Globe"(?)
 | This picture shows one of the hebes with a small sized leaf but some varieties have smaller leaves more tightly clustered. By chance, this picture also shows an experimental length of expanded polystyrene quickly carved with a standard soldering iron (not recommended) sloshed with masonry paint and posed to see if the idea was at all worth developing. I believe that it is but with the proper tools, after sketching the stone pattern on the poly and, most of all, using a darker paint with more colour variations. Dai Pajero |
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