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Rusty_Hinge writes
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I have a £15 token to spend.
My small front garden faces NE so only gets sun early in the day.
Fuchsias do OK, hydrangia, campanula, euonimus, pieris and of course privet
too. A Japenese maple was killed by the cold wind.
I would like to introduce a couple of shrubs to flower over the winter. I
see Hebes as I move around the area, but don't know the variety.
I probably don't want anything over 100cm/3 feet tall.
Ideas please.
Note the area below.

Oregon grape - with large evergreen leaves rather like holly, but
flatter. In the autumn, the leaves which will be shed go the colours of
a spectacular sunset, and the racemes of yellow flowers appear in the
winter and smell strongly, remeniscent of lily of the valley.

I assume you mean Mahonia x intermedia, not Mahonia aquifolium. In my
experience Oregon grape is restricted to the latter, and perhaps a few
related species (e.g. M. nervosa, M. pinnata, M. repens)
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Stewart Robert Hinsley