Container plants for shadyporch

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• K67 Posts: 2,506

  March 2021 edited March 2021

  You can grow evergreen ferns in shade in pots. Harts’ Tongue Fern (any fern starting with ‘Asplenium’) is evergreen. 
  Sarcoccoa evergreen scented flowers jan/feb. 
  Fibrious begonia or bizzy lizzies for summer colour.
  Some clematis will work but you need a fair size pot.
  Ivy to trail over the edge.
  Fatsia but won't be a long term plant for a pot.
  It is an open porch?
  
  

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• quitecontrary Posts: 6

  March 2021

  Thanks for suggestions, yes it’s an open porch.

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• Athelas Posts: 946

  March 2021

  Also have a look at hellebores and skimmia. For ferns, Polystichum polyblepharum is evergreen and easy to maintain — just needs all the old leaves cutting off each spring and the new ones quickly grow out

  Cambridgeshire, UK

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• KeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831

  March 2021

  Astelia Nervosa or Westmoreland.  Needs minimal maintenance, looks stunning.

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• WildFlower_UK Posts: 236

  March 2021

  I have a similar shady front 'garden' and have bought ready to plant up in containers: Polystichum setiferum ‘Herrenhausen’; Asplenium scolopendrium; 

  Sarcococca hookeriana ‘Purple Stem’; and Vinca minor ‘Argenteovariegata’ (plus another vinca minor but can't remember what). All are evergreen. I'll be adding some other flowering plants for all year round colour; ideally snowdrops for winter and not sure yet about summer.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need"

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