Exciting Evergreens for the Southeast

evergreen are crucial to accomplish wide-ranging grain and form , as well as the key to any successful four - season garden . Unfortunately , many gardeners would put a batch of evergreens in the “ necessary but boring ” class . They are a backcloth , the much - postulate greenery during colder months , but never the garden headliner that steals the show .

The plant life below might just change your head about the humble evergreen . These foliage all - stars can be called anything but boring . From beautiful blooms to colorful foliage and pops of vivid Berry , all of these evergreen have that little something extra .

1. Ruby Snow™ Loropetalum

Loropetalum chinense‘sPg-3-002’

Zones:7–9

Size:6 feet tall and wide

Conditions : Full sunlight to partial shade ; moist , well - drained soil

Purple - get out loropetalums are wide used to escape from a monotony of green evergreen bush , and they have the added appeal of a flare-up of fringed pink flower in outflow . They are also hard as nails . Ruby Snow ™ elevates loropetalums to specimen quality with a bustle of white flowers fructify against a backdrop of mystifying imperial leaves . This deep , eye - catch compounding take in loropetalums deserving revisit if you have shy away from them in the past .

2. Sawtoothed Japanese Aucuba

Aucuba japonica‘Serratifolia’

Zones:6–10

condition : Partial to full shade ; moist , well - drained soil

showy , coarsely toothed , black dark-green leaves make sawtoothed Japanese aucuba a standout textural dividing line when massed in a shaded garden or as an accent in a container planting . Its leaves are more elongate compared to the straightforward species and most cultivated varieties . Slow growth and drouth allowance ( once institute ) make it reliable and well-situated to manage . Aucuba are dioecian . If planted in proximity to a manlike plant , this distaff smorgasbord will create showy bright crimson berries in fall , add to its charm .

3. Tassel Fern

Polystichum polyblepharum

Zones:5–8

Size:2 infantry tall and wide

This clopping fern grows in an elegant vase shape , with burnished , dark green fronds setting it asunder from many other fern — not just from evergreens . mottled luminance on its finely textured matured frond makes them play and coruscate in a shade garden , a dramatic essence when it is planted en masse . I encounter tassel fern specially mesmerise in spring when fresh , tassel - shaped fronds egress display coarsely cover hairs along the rachis , providing a completely unlike textural display .

4. Red-Veined Dock

Rumex sanguineusvar.sanguineus

Size:18 in tall and blanket

Conditions : Full Sunday ; moist , well - drained ground

crimson - veined dock has boldly textured decorative leaf , make it an fantabulous accent flora . Young leafage are edible , so they are often raise in vegetable gardens . I bask total edibles to ornamental beds — a beautiful industrial plant is a beautiful plant . ruby-red - veined dock ’s oblong leaves average around 6 column inch long , and they are green with striking deep burgundy veins and midvein . Dock will keep its foliage in area with a mild winter and with adequate watering in summertime . I have obtain it to flourish in partial Dominicus , even though it is recommended for full sun .

Mae Lin Plummer is the head plantsman at the Duke Mansion in Charlotte , North Carolina .

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