Tag:landuse=shrubs
 landuse = shrubs
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| An area of cultivated decorative shrubs or bushes |
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Status: proposed
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The tag landuse=shrubs is used to map an area of cultivated shrubs, used to grow decorative woody perenial shrubs or bushes (which are shorter than trees). Often these features are found within a leisure=park or leisure=garden, or as landscaping at the edge of parking lots or around residential or commercial areas.
Sometimes this tag has been used for semi-natural areas of bushes or shrubs, which are much more commonly tagged as natural=scrub (or sometimes natural=heath). Some mappers use natural=scrub for managed or pruned areas of shrubs instead.
Most instances of this tag were created as an effort by one user to deskunk the leisure=garden tag. As a result this tag is highly regional with over two thirds of occurrences (1055 out of 1529, as of 2025-12-14) being within Seattle or the Seattle metropolitan area. In other regions, the features represented by this tag are instead typically tagged as natural=shrubbery or natural=scrub.
See also
natural=shrubbery- area of shrubbery that is actively maintained or pruned by humans. A slightly wilder look is also possiblenatural=scrub- a semi-natural or natural area of shrubsnatural=heath- a semi-natural or natural area of dwarf shrubsnatural=woodandlanduse=forest- areas of treesbarrier=hedge- a continuous line of trimmed shrubs which is cultivated to form a barrier.landuse=flowerbed- a flowerbed, planted with flowering herbaceous plantsleisure=garden- some gardens contain areas of shrubslanduse=plant_nursery- a plant nursery, where live plants, including shrubs, are grown for sale or transplant elsewherelanduse=orchard- an area of cultivated trees or shrubs grown for food, including berry bushes, coffee and tea shrubs.