The shrub abelia can be quite under45used in the garden yet it is one that can give endless interest colour and scent a semi45evergreen plant with strong arching branches that gives valuable autumn interest thanks to its clusters of fragrant flowers performing well in dry sunny conditions abelia is perfect for a warm sunny border in your garden the glossy foliagecan be clipped into a neat hedge staying in leaf for most of the year plants are most hardy when grown by a shelter