Common name: Silverberry

Description: Elaeagnus x ebbingei 'Crispy' is a compact and well-behaved evergreen shrub with distinctive, attractively crimped and wavy-edged silvery-green leaves. In autumn, it bears small but intensely fragrant white flowers that perfume the garden from a distance. This tidy variety is excellent for formal and informal hedging, screens, or as a standalone specimen shrub. Highly wind tolerant and adaptable, it will thrive in coastal gardens and exposed positions where many other shrubs would struggle.

Other benefits: fragrant autumn flowers, distinctive wavy foliage, excellent for hedging

Wildlife attraction: bees attracted to the fragrant flowers; birds eat the berries

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 2m x 2m

Position: full sun to partial shade

Soil pH: neutral to slightly alkaline; adaptable

Moisture: well-drained; drought tolerant once established

Winter hardiness: cold hardy to -15°C