These shrubs can resist strong winds while adding structure and interest to the garden. Homes & Gardens. Best wind resistant shrubs – 10 plants that bring protection as well as color to your yard.

The plant’s flexible sun and shade requirements are a real plus. You can use Elaeagnus to create continuity in areas of semi shade, filtered sunlight and all day, direct sun.

Hardy evergreen shrub elaeagnus, or oleaster, is known for its glossy, variegated foliage andsweet-scented autumn flowers.

Some plants come into their own in winter and early spring when most plants have lost their leaves and have little to offer by way of garden ornament. Elaeagnus is a beacon amid the bare branches.

Oleaster - Elaeagnus angustifolia - Small deciduous tree, about 4.5 to 6 m (15 to 20 feet) that is hardy, wind resistant, tolerant of poor, dry sites, and thus useful in windbreak hedges.

Elaeagnus commutata, commonly known as silver berry, is a thicket-forming shrub . By John Manley, Politics Correspondent. July 15, 2017 at 2:00am BST ...

T horny elaeagnus has long been a popular shrub with highway landscapers, who planted the hardy, drought-resistant bushes in medians across the South to shield nighttime drivers from the glare of ...

Elaeagnus aren’t the most colourful of shrubs, but in winter they can come into their own, especially one like E x ebbingei ‘Gilt Edge’ with its dark leaves edged with creamy yellow.