How to Use shrubby in a Sentence
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These shrubby perennials will pop right up in the spring and grace your garden with their lush blooms by June.
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Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
19 Sep. 2025
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Your goal is to encourage the jade plant to spread out and be sturdy and shrubby instead of tall and skinny.
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Dec. 2025
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Some shrubby types of honeysuckle produce flowers on stems that grow during the current season (aka the new wood).
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Mar. 2026
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The scarlet tubular flowers of this shrubby vine are magnets for hummingbirds, and songbirds also eat their fruit.
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Anne Readel,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Feb. 2026
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This shrubby plant produces numerous wands of beautiful pinkish-purple blooms.
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Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Sep. 2025
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Sea mists turn the mountain’s shrubby flank brilliant green during summer but monsoon currents make swimming dangerous.
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Anna Zacharias,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Jan. 2026
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Other shrubs to consider include rabbitbrush, Apache plume, shrubby cinquefoil, three-lobed sumac and Fremont mahonia.
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Special To The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
31 Aug. 2025
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