The Beatles - Saint Pancras Old Church Gardens, London 1968

Band - The Beatles
Photography - Don McCullin
Origin - Liverpool UK
Year - 1968
Location of Shrubs - St Pancras Old Church, Camden, London, UK

Love - Forever Shrubcore

Ooh Love, one of the greatest bands ever and shrubcore 'til the very end as you can see from these promotional photographs.

Band: Love

Album: It's not one, it's some promotional photographs Tim

Origin: Los Angeles, USA

Label: Elektra mostly

Year: Various 1967 - early 2000's

Location of Shrubs: California, USA

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This song didn't make the cut on Forever Changes and only surfaced a few years ago as a bonus track on a CD reissue but it's wonderful.

Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

Band - Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66
Album - Herb Alpert Presents
Origin - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Year - 1966
Label - A&M
Location of Shrubs - Unknown

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Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again. I'd Do It All Over You

Band - Caravan
Album - If I Could Do It All Over Again. I'd Do It All Over You
Origin - Canterbury, Kent, UK
Year - 1970
Label - Decca
Location of Shrubs - Holland Park, London, UK
Identified Horticulture - Aesculus Hippocastanum Spotter - Paul Pritchard, University of the West of England

The golden age of Shrubcore is undoubtedly the mid 1960's to the early 1970's and this album by Canterbury Scene legends Caravan is a classic of the genre. Extensive research has identified this delightfully bucolic scene to be shot not in the ancient Blean woods of east Kent as initially expected but a mere stones throw from the Shepherd's Bush roundabout in west London's Holland Park.

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Welcome

One London Saturday in July 2011 I was flicking through my record collection and realised I had a significant amount of records by bands who liked being pictured on their LP sleeves among Shrubs or other delightful types of foliage thus Shrubcore was born. This blog attempts to spread knowledge & awareness of this wonderful & inclusive genre.