Tall shade loving plant for patio

[FusionChefGeoff]

Got an ugly corner on our patio which needs a lovely tall, thin, ideally evergreen type plant in a big pot.

Gets early morning sun for a few hours but mostly very shaded.

Any ideas??

Swiss cheese plant - Monstera deliciosa.

I grow two outside in pots in the frozen north. They're fine.

Oh wow didn't know they could cope outside - they're pretty hard to kill aren't they (she says hopefully looking at the long line of souls previously lost to my black fingers...)

Fatsia japonica can grow big and grows well outdoors in the ground in London. I have it in a pot here in Melbourne.

Oh I think I have fatsia japonica outside, thinking about it, not monstera deliciousa!

Mmm Fatsia images online look quite wide and I really need something thin as there's not a lot of space.

Goon David Austin site and pick a short climbing rose that doesn’t mind shade.

You can get a new thinner Farsi japonica now, one is www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=5992&fromplants=pl%5Fid%3D1877

I’ve got some bamboo in a pot growing happily in a corner that never gets direct sun. I sometimes swap it out with another one to give it a holiday. .

Or ivy, there’s nice ones, growing in a big pot up a trellis

Mahonia gentle caress should cope. Awful name but no thorns.

Big fern?

An evergreen clematis

@JustJam4Tea I'm trying to go for the 'outdoor room' effect so I'd prefer something freestanding in a pot rather than a climber so will do some more Fastia / fern research.

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-form

This is a great resource. You don't need to enter a name, just adjust the filters and click search.

So you can search for a plant to live in a container, in full shade, that's tall and thin.

Bamboo. There are some really decorative ones with different stem colours- bright red, yellow and even black!

I’ve got a eucalyptus in a pot, it has grown to about 4ft and seems happy in pot and shade.

I second @MarmiteCoriander's suggestion of a bamboo- I've got a black one in a large container in a shady corder which looks great- the black canes are really striking. It grows like mad so you could probably start with quite a small plant and just divide it every year or two.

Taxus baccata Fastigiata Aurea - Golden Irish Yew can be grown in a pot. It's very slow growing and will tolerate shade. It is tightly branched with a neat, compact, upright growth habit that doesn't require any clipping or trimming. Beautiful yellow-green foliage with bright golden edges. The female form has red winter berries.