What are the best low-maintenance evergreen plants?
Popular choices include photinia ‘red robin’, camellia, skimmia, pittosporum, hebe, choisya, and box (buxus) — all reliable, low-maintenance shrubs that offer lasting texture and colour. Any list of the best evergreen shrubs would be incomplete without gorgeous lavender. With scented silver-green foliage and lovely flowers in shades of purple, lilac and pink, this well-loved hardy shrub is attractive, versatile, deeply fragrant and acts as a magnet for bees and other pollinators.Popular choices include Photinia ‘Red Robin’, Camellia, Skimmia, Pittosporum, Hebe, Choisya, and Box (Buxus) — all reliable, low-maintenance shrubs that offer lasting texture and colour.
What is the longest flowering perennial in the UK?
Geranium. Probably one of the longest flowering garden plants, hardy geraniums start flowering around May, and continue to October, depending on the variety. One of the longest flowering varieties is Geranium ‘Johnson’s blue’ (illustrated) which is also attractive to bees. List below) . Plant these 17 long-living perennial flowers for a garden that blooms for decades: Peonies, Daylilies, Hostas, Iris, Black-eyed Susans, Sedum, Echinacea, Lavender, Yarrow, Coreopsis, Russian Sage, Bleeding Heart, Lupine, Hellebore, Astilbe, Salvia, and Shasta Daisy.