Hedge not a shrub

I hope these are close enough for you to tell what they are.

Looks like what my mother called Nandina, or Heavenly Bamboo.

Good call Neo - Nandina is correct.

Nandina domestica
Love that plant and and want it.

Yes, I think you guys hit it. Tilly you can have all you want, lol. Most people to seem to like it, I just don't. I guess that's what make the world go round. Thanks all.
Vicki

I think you'd like it much better if it wasn't clipped into hedge shape. Its best look is as a natural spray that sends out blossoms and then produces berries.

http://www.thegardenhelper.com/pixpg/nandinapix.html

I so often hear people talking about how they don't like Photinia. It's a beautiful plant in a hotter environment (more blossoms, no leaf spot) and when it's not sheared as landscaping fodder. It gets so abused up here, poor stuff. If you see it in summer in the Willamette Valley, for instance, it looks like a whole different plant.

As Katye has pointed out to me, it's related to roses, so of course it needs that hot sun.

Nandina, to me, should never be altered they are so elegant in free form, sorry I have loved this plant for enons, just to spendie for what the nurseries want for them.
Vicky, I want them, but have no way as now to get them. Unless someone goes your way.

I have a Photinia hedge - I don't like it, but mainly because my neighbor insists on watering it . . . despite the fact that I've shown her information on how they don't do well in this part of the country because of the moisture! She also does the pruning of it - or should I say butchering? She leaves the end of it by my house alone (it gives me privacy from her house and the house next to her) and darned if my end didn't have some blooms on it! I'd never seen that before and it's quite nice.

I could ask her to leave it alone, but I'm not about to be taking care of it and it ends up blocking her view so I'm perfectly acceptable to her "caring" for it.

Yeah, when they're used as a hedge, it's kind of tough to change anything. And even though they don't like it well here, they are pretty tough and put up with a lot. Privacy is a good thing.