Late-summer shrubs

This extract from AG 8 August 1970 explains how larger shrubs can be used in the late-summer garden

WHILE many of the best late summer-flowering shrubs are small and thus good for associating with the herbaceous plants of their season, there is a selection of larger kinds to give form to the late-summer garden.

It is extraordinary how the Chinese butterfly bush, , has made itself at home in Britain since its introduction in 1895. There can be few shrubs that have so quickly been added to the British flora. Readers who remember