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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: Digitalis on January 03, 2010, 20:19:46

Title: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: Digitalis on January 03, 2010, 20:19:46: I have a large border at home that looks lovely in the summer with the bedding I use. However, during the winter it looks empty and unloved.

So, I was planning on putting in a few evergreen shrubs. I am tempted by eryngium and holly. Can you recommend anything else that looks good during the winter and has a reasonable amount of flora come summertime?
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: Georgie on January 03, 2010, 20:25:50: How about Rosemary, Lavender and Sage. Year round colour, bee friendly, scent and useful. What more could you want? ;D

G x
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: tonybloke on January 03, 2010, 20:50:10: I second the Rosemary!! ;)
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: Georgie on January 03, 2010, 20:53:26: Quote from: tonybloke on January 03, 2010, 20:50:10
I second the Rosemary!! ;)

And what's wrong with Lavender and Sage? ::)

G x
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: tonybloke on January 03, 2010, 20:56:56: Quote from: Georgie on January 03, 2010, 20:53:26
Quote from: tonybloke on January 03, 2010, 20:50:10
I second the Rosemary!! ;)

And what's wrong with Lavender and Sage? ::)

G x

erm, 'evergreen' ?
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: Georgie on January 03, 2010, 20:59:32: Quote from: tonybloke on January 03, 2010, 20:56:56
Quote from: Georgie on January 03, 2010, 20:53:26
Quote from: tonybloke on January 03, 2010, 20:50:10
I second the Rosemary!! ;)

And what's wrong with Lavender and Sage? ::)

G x

erm, 'evergreen' ?

Mine are!

G x
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: Bugloss2009 on January 03, 2010, 21:09:27: ceanothus?
mahonia?
viburnum tinus
pieris?

coloured bark
dogwood?
acer Palamatum"sango-kaku" (mine was called senkaki)

what about the variagated phormiums?

the list is endless
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: small on January 03, 2010, 22:07:41: Hebes go on for ever and you can chop them around to fit your space. Photinia is lovely but you won't get flowers, Osmanthus, Escallonia, Choisya.......Ceanothus are a difficult colour to blend and tend to die at a moments notice. Lots to choose from...
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: grannyjanny on January 04, 2010, 12:42:21: Lonicera Baggesen's Gold. OK it doesn't flower but I have a Passion flower growing over it & it looks great.
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: lottiedolly on January 04, 2010, 14:27:41: I have sacred (heavenly) bamboo in my front and back garden. it is not a bamboo it is an evergreen shrub of reddish purple and green leaves and flowers red and white in summer and has red berries in winter and everyone stops and comments on its beauty, i truly cannot recomend this enough
Title: Re: Any Evergreen Recommendations?
Post by: Digitalis on January 04, 2010, 22:02:55: Thanks!

Lots to think about!