Shrubs, hedges and climbers · question 3
What does the leaf look like?
- Needles or scales: An ornamental conifer, often broad or creeping.
- Hollow canes with nodes and narrow leaves: Bamboo.
- Leaf with spines or sharp teeth
- Leaf with an entire, smooth margin
- Green, ridged twigs with few or no leaves: Golden-yellow pea-like flowers in May; poor sandy soil.
- No leaves, only green spines: Impenetrable; fragrant yellow flowers, mainly in spring.
All species with this feature
Still possible
- Ornamental juniper (Juniperus)
- Bamboo (Phyllostachys)
- Oregon grape (Berberis aquifolium)
- Holly (Ilex aquifolium)
- Firethorn (Pyracantha)
- Photinia (Photinia)
- Japanese pieris (Pieris japonica)
- Camellia (Camellia japonica)
- Box (Buxus sempervirens)
- Garden privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium)
- Box-leaved honeysuckle (Lonicera nitida)
- Rhododendron (Rhododendron)
- Cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus)
- Oleaster (Elaeagnus)
- Japanese skimmia (Skimmia japonica)
- Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster)
- Bay laurel (Laurus nobilis)
- Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus)
- Broom (Cytisus scoparius)
- Gorse (Ulex europaeus)