Evergreen pot plant?

[Scottishgirl85]

On the hunt for a lovely evergreen plant that can live in a pot with year-round interest... any ideas?

Inside or outdoors?

If it's outdoors then you can grow pretty much anything in pot providing it's hardy enough to survive outdoors all year and the pot is big enough. It'll need regular watering and feeding and top dressing with compost to give it the nutrients it needs.

My favourite outdoors pot shrub is a pieris. They like acid soil but that's easy in a pot with ericaceous compost and food. It's evergreen, has clusters of white flowers and lovely red bracts in spring. Mine lost its first set to frost but it's grown a new set and is looking good now.

Mine stays at a moderate size but I think if the pot was bigger it could get larger - in borders they can get huge.

@errolthedragon Will look at pieris, thank you. Do I need both male and female plants near each other to ensure berries? I'm clueless!
Thanks

I was looking at skimmia rubella but was put off that berries only come if you have pollination from male plant?
Also looking at hebe pink elephant.

Pieris doesn't have berries so that's not an issue. Its colour is mainly spring but it's a nice looking plant all year imo.

What sort of size are you after? One option with pots is to have a group with different seasons of main interest, depending on how much space you have, rather than hoping for one which will be a star all year round.

@ErrolTheDragon thank you. Sorry I thought above you'd written berries with a typo.
It's 4 large pots spaced across the front of our house. We have double fronted bay windowed house so the 4 pots work really well. Ideally I'd like the plants to all match. Maybe I'm asking too much of one plant! I just don't want the hassle of constantly changing for each season, I'm not a natural gardener and have young kids who take up my time!

My garden got quite overgrown when DD was little, low maintenance is definitely a good idea for most at that age!

Escallonia pink elle does well in a pot. It is evergreen, grows to 1 metre height and spread, and flowers in July and another show in September every year. You’d need a big pot.

Some skimmias are self fertile:

• Obsession (Gold Series)
• Temptation
• Pabella
• Red Diamond
• Skimmia japonica subsp. Reevesiana