Evergreen tub plants

[Travelcrazy]

Please can someone tell me what the tub plants are also are they evergreen and would they survive the winter in the Midlands UK
Thanks for your help

It's too fuzzy a picture to tell, really, but presumably what you like about all of them is that they're green? And you want them to stay green in the winter too?

So you want to look for evergreen plants that are hardy for your area and like being in pots, and then look at the shapes they make and how big they grow and choose what suits you on that basis. Honestly there will be hundreds.

I'd probably start with a few dwarf conifers, they do well in pots and they look good in pots too because they tend to grow quite symmetrically.

I'm gonna come back with some more ideas when I've thought about it a bit more, and some specific plant suggestions.
It does look lovely and you can defo create something like it! 🪴

Also I just noticed it says AI modified, which basically means they're not real plants anyway which I kinda thought might be the case.
So we can just get you choosing some real plants and not try to actually re-create this, but something of your own. 🙂

OK hope you're coming back sometime @Travelcrazy !
This is where I'd start. Gardening Express have got some special offers - they always have - I had a look to see what might fit your brief. I thought of them because I've literally just put an order in of my own, totally from their special offers!

Pair of 3-4ft Canary Island Phoenix Date Palms - Perfect for Patio Planters
Great place to start with a bit of height, drama, and a tropical feel - but will be hardy here especially if sheltered unless we get a very cold winter then you might have to wrap them up over the coldest weather.

Trendy Textures - Patio Conifer Collection - Pack of FIVE Different Plants
Five different conifers to go in pots, all different shapes and textures. Total bargain whatever they put in.

Astelia chatamica Silver Shadow
Lovely silver/green plant great in a pot because of the way the leaves will spill/grow over the sides making a gorgeous shape.

How am I doing? I can find more if this is working for you - their offers do sell out though so good if you look quick.

Difficult to tell from the photo, but there's some hostas, which are not evergreen - they die back in winter and grow again in spring (unless the slugs & snails get them first).

Also what looks like a pot of succulents. Most succulents are not hardy outdoors in the UK, but you could look for sempervivums (houseleeks) which are hardy.

Possibly a camellia at the back, that is evergreen & should be fine in a large pot, and will flower in spring.

The other big leafy thing at the back I can't identify but that wouldn't be evergreen either, and is possibly tropical. It might be a banana and you can get hardy-ish ones of those, but you have to wrap them up in fleece in the winter and they need a sheltered, warm site.

The best thing you can do is to go to a garden centre and walk around, looking at the shrubs they have there, and reading the information on the labels. A good garden centre will have staff who can advise you.

Crocus.co.uk also has a plant finder function. You can filter by, say, evergreen, grows ok in a pot, will grow in shade etc. It’ll give you some ideas.

@heldinadream Sorry I am back now! 😁
Thanks very much for everyone for your advice it's been extremely valuable and appreciated I will see what I can find from the suggestions x

@Travelcrazy @heldinadream I would advise against buying anything from Gardening Express. A quick search on old threads will be revelatory.

Also, Phoenix palms are not reliably hardy in much of the U.K. I have one and I love it, it is huge and spectacular, but my garden is very sheltered and a sun trap and tbh I’ve just been lucky that it’s survived. If you want palms, look for trachycarpus fortunei or chamaerops humilis, both of which are much hardier than Phoenix and better suited to containers.

As @Yamadori suggested, other hardy evergreen plants that could give you this Mediterranean garden feeling would be sempervivums (houseleeks), which are very robust succulents and come in lots of shapes and colours. I also agree that it looks like a banana at the back. I have dozens of them, they are very easy to grow but they need full sun and they look awful in winter.

For container planting I would also recommend soleirolia soleilrolii (aka mind your own business ☺️), it’s a moss-like plant, very invasive if planted in the ground but looks stunning in pots. Also evergreen. https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/17471/soleirolia-soleirolii/details

Another evergreen is Daphne, smells divine too but very slow growing so you will need to be patient and buy the biggest you can afford.

I would also recommend ferns, many look good throughout the winter and are nearly evergreen - you just need to cut the old fronds in spring and the new fronds unfurl immediately. Hart’s tongue fern in particular might look similar to some of these tubs.

You could also try aspidistra, it’s sold as a houseplant but is quite hardy.

@Koulibiak thanks they are great suggestions I will definitely be having some of them

@Travelcrazy Also there was a segment on Gardeners World last week (29 August) on hardy Mediterranean plants. Fascinating stuff