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. I grow silver euonymous fortunei through it like a climber to break up the dark green, and also small clematis, such as alpinas and macropetalas for some extra flower power and fluffy seed heads. Birds love it. Easy to underplant too as its roots don

taken off the lower branches up to around 5ft from the ground but I'm now looking for perennial evergreen plants that would grow well around the base. The soil is heavy clay and very rooty from the tree. Do you think I could find anything, or is it a

for Mediterranean type planting in gravel. Taxus varieties......slow growing narrow like Stamdishii, low mounds like Coppershine...Juniperus Sulphur Spray.Phormiums, dwarf purple berberis, santolinas, thymes, euonymous Emerald n Gold. Etc low growing bright blue

recently but they never did very well and I believe it was a problem with the concrete. I had a look round and found these plants and would like some advice on their suitability Euonymous Fortunei "Emerald Gaiety"Leucothoe Scarletta "Zebida

not be about the usual hedging plants. I grow a "hedge" along the side of my veg patch comprising euonymous emerald n gold, variegated box, potentilla, a good blue rosemary, Lonicera nitida Baggesons Gold (love this one) and a couple of half standard prunus

shade now and lots of scope for planting. I've so far planted dog and briar rose, field maple, euonymous and wayfaring tree; also a rowan and wild cherry. We had a huge overgrown elder and as it was only flowering and fruiting high up, we cut it right

such as the small hollies are good, christmas box, any of the smaller euonymous, golden laurel  - lots of choices for pots, worth looking around some good web sites for what is on offer now. The reality is that you can grow anything in a pot as long as you

This weekend I pruned my Euonymous emerald 'n' green & was hesitant on putting the cuttings in the 'darlek' to compost down as they have a bit of a waxy feel to them. Do they compost well? What other type of prunings DO NOT ie Laurel, Photina

image - will try again once posted   Low maintenance evergreens include: phormium, bergenia, heuchera, euonymous (some), carex, cotoneaster (some), flat-growing junipers, choisya, lavender, euphorbia (some), aucuba japonica, prunus (some), ajuga, festuca

!! Thanks in anticipation Hiya red dahlia. You have outlined a bed hot, dry n sunny n windy from the east.Phormiums spring to mind....evergreen and colourful. Red, yellow and striped.Conifers aren't to everyone's fancy but usually it's because they grow