Shrubs have always been a compulsory part of the old parks. They were planted as independent elements of the park landscape or were members of other plantations. Landscape Construction appreciates trees because of their size, variety of crown shapes and leaf colors. Shrubs are significantly smaller than the trees and have a smaller variety of crowns, but they have very interesting variants of flowers, foliage and crown structure. No flowerbed can produce such colorful decorative effect, which create large tracts planted with decorative shrubs [4]. Dendrological park "Alexandria" NAS of Ukraine is one of the largest and most famous dendroparks of Ukraine, founded in 1788. Woody shrubs have been used in the park since its inception. About this, we know from memoirs of contemporaries. The earliest information about the use of shrubs we can find in notes of August Pelletier de la Garde (1824): "I wandered around in the bushes of lilacs, passing along the wall .... Then, surrounded by roses, myrtle and exotic plants can be seen the temple of white marble ..." [1]. About roses also mentions Aftanaziv R. (1993), in his work there are drawings of Wilibald Richter "Island of Roses" (the middle of the XIX century) [5]. Drawings of Napoleon Orda (1872), which show the various pavilions surrounded by shrubs, are presented right there. Unfortunately, the list of plants that are grown in "Alexandria" is not preserved. In the estate of Al. Branitsky, 166 taxa of deciduous shrubs and 9 taxa of conifers grew [3]. Today the collection of the park "Alexandria" has 545 kinds and cultivars of shrubs, it is 44.7 % of the total number of woody plants [2]. Some of them are located in the scientific and collection areas "Coniferetum" – 89 taxa of conifers and 21 taxa of deciduous shrubs; "Frutitsetum" – 4 taxa of conifers and 156 taxa of deciduous shrubs; "Siringary" – 30 varieties of Syringa vulgaris L. and 22 taxa of deciduous shrubs; "Rosary" – 115 varieties of roses from 10 garden groups. On the landscaped areas of the park, bushes are used to create arrays, curtains (Juniperus Sabina L., J. sabina ‘Variegata’, J. chinensis ‘Pfitzeriana Glauca’, Taxus baccata L., T. cuspidata Sieb. et Zucc., Cotinus coggygria Scop., Berberis vulgaris L., Buddleja alternifolia Maxim., Symphoricarpos albus (L.) Blake, Hydrangea arborescens L., Forsythia x intermedia Zab., Daphne cneorum L. and others), planted on the edges (Cornus mas L., Swida sanguinea (L.) Opiz, Deutzia х lemoinei Lemoine ex Bois., Philadelphus coronarius L., Syringa vulgaris L., Rubus odoratus L., Spiraea х vanhouttei (Briot) Zal., Viburnum lantana L.), strengthening of the slopes (Juniperus Sabina, Microbiota decussata Kom., Rhus typhina L., Rh. typhina ‘Laciniana’, Zanthoxylum americanum Mill.), hedgerows (Mahonia aquifolium (Pursch) Nutt., Buxus sempervirens L., Deutzia scabra Thunb., Physocarpus opulifolius (L.) Maxim., Rosa multiflora Thunb.), and a single landings (Taxus cuspidata Sieb. et Zucc., Cercis siliquastrum L., Kolkwitzia amabilis Graebn., Lonicera tatarica L., Weigela florida (Bunge) A. DC., Laburnum anagyroides Medic., Ribes aureum Pursh, Exochorda grandiflora (Hook.) Schneid. and others).  Work on replenishment of the collection of shrubs with decorative forms for the purpose of putting them into the landscape of the park continues.