Episode 26: Broadleaf Evergreens

Our picks have interesting foliage, flowers, or growth habits to enhance their appeal

The ivory of any successful garden are its woody plants . And the key to any successfulfour - seasongarden is evergreens . Conifers are great , but they can be costly and obtuse to bulge up . Broadleaf evergreens , on the other hand , bulk up quickly and are generally affordable . The only drawback is they can be boring . In fact , most gardeners call back only of rhodies and hollies when it comes to this classification of plants . The options in this episode prove that this class of plants is anything but boring .

Expert testimonial : Richie Steffen , director / curator for the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle .

A nifty choice for ironic shade isdrooping laurel(Leucothoe fontanesiana , Zones 5 - 8) . The long branches eventually shape a dense brushwood , blanket the bare ramification of matured trees or larger shrub .

One of Danielle ’s favorite broadleaf evergreens , leatherleaf viburnum(Viburnum rhytidophyllum , Zones 5 - 8) was suggest to her by West Coast garden interior decorator Stacie Crooks . The foliage grain is matchless , while the red and imperial drop berry are a favorite of song birds .

Steve has experimented with several different varieties ofmountain laurelincluding the dwarf,‘Minuet ’ . He assign much of his success with the genus to Dr. Dick Jaynes of Broken Arrow Nursery telling him to establish them in the sun — not fond shade as many texts suggest .

Expert Richie Steffen loves a lot of different broadleaf evergreen , but one of the most unique iscliff green(Paxistima canbyi , zone 3 - 7 ) , a low - spring up , emerald - hue spreader . It ’s also known by the inauspicious common name “ rat - stripper ” due to native Ellen Price Wood rats sometimes loot the leaves and bark off in wintertime in a dire hunting for food . Ew .

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