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dannyboy10
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My boss has a very large garden which is 40 foot long and 8 foot wide going down to 2 foot wide.
It is semi shade with the sun in the afternoon and he wants it planting up with evergreen flowering shrubs.
He has asked if I would help him out.
He said money no problem and he only has rhododendrons in which grow very well.
Need a list of good evergreen flowering shrubs / plants.
Any advice would be great.
I do have some ideas.
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If the rhododendrons grow well, might that indicate that the soil is on the acid side? I'm wondering if some of the Heathers (I won't say which as I always get it wrong) camellias, ceonothus and cotoneaster, choisia, there is a winter flowering honeysuckle which I think retains it's leaves. Hope this gets you somewhere
Oh, and there are some roses which are semi-evergreen; any good rose seller will tell you which, I use rosebuddies.com
Thank you
Had these on my list.
Do you mean metres, 8ft wide is very narrow for large shrubs.
I was wondering that!
Or do the measurements relate to a bed/border that needs planting up?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry
I size of the garden is in metres.
But this is only one part of his garden
He also has smaller beds to plant up.
Skimmia?
camellia, osmanthus