East facing border in the Spring.

Now that is really neat, Shirley, and looks very attractive with all the contrasting shapes and shades. I have been pruning osmanthus delavayi (first time in 6 years!) and holly with my heart in my mouth today as I am leery of cutting back shrubs. P'raps I should be more adventurous if the end result looks more like this!

Looking great :-)

Thanks to everyone for your lovely comments.

Your border looks so colourful. A lovely selection of shrubs.

Loving the different shrubs and colours all standing perfectly well along side each other! Such interest going on in this area of your garden, Shirley.

Thank you Kate for your kind words ... am trying hard to make the garden more low maintenance with shrubs rather than annuals.