Filling your garden with year-round interest, texture and structure, evergreens are an incredibly important element of any garden design.
Enhancing your garden with form and privacy, evergreen shrubs and trees are the key to a glorious landscape as they ensure that your garden looks vibrant throughout every season. Providing safe areas for garden wildlife to nest and shelter, evergreens are wonderful for supporting your garden’s local ecosystem too. During the colder autumn and winter months, evergreens are an especially important part of the garden as other spring and summer flowering plants slowly disappear, evergreens come into the spotlight to maintain your garden’s striking composition.
From sculpted hedging to spectacular shrubs, come with us as we explore the importance of evergreens, disclosing a few of our soft landscaping team’s favourite picks for a flourishing evergreen garden.
Pyracantha
An autumn and winter garden delight, Pyracantha otherwise known as ‘Firethorn’ is a magical garden shrub. Boasting a fiery palette during the colder and darker seasons, Pyracantha is a wonderful shrub that can be planted to brighten up any section of the garden. Producing beautiful white blooms in the springtime, this shrub is also a fantastic evergreen for attracting wildlife into the garden.
Taxus baccata
Taxus baccata or ‘English yew’ is an evergreen that our planting designers adore integrating into our wider garden designs. Low maintenance and well-structured, Taxus baccata is a fabulous evergreen that can be used to softly screen and enclose different sections of your garden. Effortlessly encouraging privacy throughout your landscape, yew is a particularly popular evergreen choice due to its tall and dense form.
Juniper
‘Juniperus communis’, better known as Juniper, is a charming and aromatic evergreen shrub. Best planted in sunny or slightly shaded areas, Juniper is a delight to have within the garden. Flowering beautifully in spring and producing dainty fruits in the autumn, this plant is fantastic for filling your garden with year-round visual interest.
Ilex aquifolium
A magical winter tree and shrub, holly makes a fabulous addition to the garden. Flourishing an abundance of glossy green foliage, this plant contrasts an array of cherry red berries against these deep emerald leaves, putting on a real showstopping display throughout the autumn and winter months. Providing shelter for birds, hedgehogs and more, holly is a true garden delight that we adore including within our landscape designs.
Photinia
Adding a burst of colour to the garden from spring through to autumn, Photinia or ‘Christmas berry’ is a striking ornamental evergreen. Flourishing dainty white blooms and bright red berries, Photinia is an eye-catching addition to the garden that is best established in a particularly warm and sheltered space.
Laurus nobilis
Beautifully potted or planted in beds and borders, bay trees are fantastic evergreens that add height and aroma to your garden. Decorating entrances and doorways beautifully, bay trees are wonderful plants for framing inviting and welcoming front garden scenes.
Interested in enhancing your garden with evergreen structure and texture? Talk to our specialist soft landscaping team to transform your landscape today.
