Best flowering evergreen plants and climbers

Hi everyone,

This is a bit of a general query. I have got 2 borders that I am slowly filling up and also some space on my fence I would like a climber to go. I need advice on:

1) good evergreen shrubs or plants that will flower. Options for shade and sun both welcome.
2) evergreen climbers that will flower. Preferably ones that prefer shade.

If suggestions can be winter hardy that would be a great help.

I’m trying to maintain something all year round whilst having some colour to look forward to in the warmer months

Thanks

 

Hiya Lee ...an indispensable shrub that should be in every garden is choisya....there are a few varieties but they have superb aromatic evergreen foliage and orangey/vanilla scented flowers in spring and summer. For sun. Lots of hebes....from tall to small, with different foliage colours and flowers.
Camellias too. Daphne odora Aureo marginata. The winter honeysuckle, lonicera winter beauty is evergreen, grows in shade and has scented winter flowers; ditto sarcoccoca. Mahonias including a relatively new compact soft foliage variety called Soft Caress. Berberis Darwinii is a tough evergreen shrub with orange spring flowers. Viburnums in variety flower over winter or in spring. Pittosporum Tobira for foliage and scented flowers.
Hellebores, although a perennial, have great evergreen foliage and gorgeous late winter flowers. Euphorbias like Tasman Tiger, Ascot Rainbow, Rubra, etc. are evergreen with bright yellow spring flowers.
You asked for flowers but consider evergreen shrubs like euonymous, pittosporums (purple foliage, variegated foliage) even hollies
Where are you Lee? Warm garden or cold? Makes a big difference when suggesting plants.
An evergreen climber or semi evergreen in most places is trachelospermum. A classy first rate plant. Winter Jasmine flowers in late winter. Pyracantha is a fine evergreen wall plant.
For low levels how about heucheras,,bergenias, brunneras and heathers (winter carneas flower over winter over foliage colours of green, yellow and grey)
There are lots and lots of plants available.....if you have acid soil azaleas, dwarf rhodos, pieris and kalmia are excellent

 

Hi Lee
A useful climber is clematis cirrhosa Freckles - it is evergreen and though it is supposed to be winter flowering, it appears to flower for nearly 6 months.
And if you fancy pieris (as Verdun suggested) but have limey soil, how about Photinia Pink Marble

 

Passion flower/RHS Gardening can be invasive if left unattended.

 

This is a good site to get ideas from Long Acre Plants I've ordered from them in the past with no complaints.