Shall We 'Sundance'?

Shady garden need brightening up? Here's a brilliant idea.

I've had this Choisya ternata 'Sundance' (Mexican Orange), a perennial shrub, planted in my backyard woodland garden for at least five years now, and lately I've been wondering why I don't have more! It's fantastic for a dry shade mini paradise like mine. The foliage is a shiny, neon-like lime green that provides stunning contrast and brightens those dark, shadowy voids in the garden. It's tiny white flowers in spring smell amazingly sweet ... I've had no pest problems with it ... Pruning? It can handle it. In fact, it seemed to return with a more shapely, neater silhouette after I gave it a good heading back because it was getting leggy. Height-wise, it hovers in the 3-5 feet range, making it a fabulous understory plant for darker-leaved trees and taller shrubs. I also adore that it needs little water once established. That enough reasons for you to get one (or several) for yourself? I only have one, so into the ground several more of these beauties go before the Bay Area's winter rains come a pouring down.