1.   The garden has many ornamental shrubs.

2.   Boys batting softballs into her gutters, kicking soccer balls into her front yard and, on their retrieval missions, snapping branches off her ornamental shrubs.

3.   In cold climates, the biggest threats to ornamental shrubs are desiccation and physical damage from snow loads.

4.   Ornamental shrubs have started to shrivel.

5.   Taxus bushes, also known as yews, are the most common ornamental shrub in the area, and they can withstand removal of a lot of needles.

6.   Ten years ago, tea viburnum, a tall ornamental shrub from China, was rarely seen even in private gardens.