Best evergreen or semi-evergreen plants for year-round interest in pots

[3corneredhat]

I've recently moved and my new garden is small and paved. I'd like to fill in with pots and would be grateful for recommendations for evergreen or semi-evergreen plants (flowering or not). I plan to have pots of spring and summer bedding plants but would like some year round interest too. Thank you

I have an olive tree that I love. Hebes can also do well in pots.

Camellia, fan palm, ceanothus, honeysuckle, evergreen clematis (last 2 with a trellis up a wall/fence).

Not evergreen but nice foliage and can do well in a pot: acers, ferns, blueberry with acidic soil (get 2 plants minimum for cross-pollination and plenty of blueberries).

I've recently dug up a nandina and put that in a pot, it looks beautiful! Also a rhododendron. Both are evergreen.

Choisya 'White Dazzler'. Patio roses. Lavender . Rosemary. Avoid plants with fleshy roots eg Heuchera as they are so vulnerable to vine weevils in pots.
If plants are going to be in pots long term then it's worth using John Innes no3 or mixing multi purpose compost and topsoil. Multi-purpose on its own will degrade and there will be little oxygen in the compost. Worth adding a controlled release fertiliser, eg Osmocote.

I've two Euonymus fortuneii Emerald 'n' Gold shrubs in big pots either side of my north facing front path. They always look jolly and cheerful and are very tolerant of the conditions. If you're not keen on the Gold colour, Silver Queen is lovely too and would be bright and cheerful all year round.

I have two large pots of pieris and two or three of nandinia that have done really well.

Ooh, and my acers love their pots!

They are slow growing but I have several skimmias in pots. They have been in flower since January and some will have berries (I think you need both male and female to get berries).

There are several acers (Bi Hoo, Phoenix for example) that have interesting coloured trunks and branches for winter colour, look great at this time of the year when the leaves are starting to come out and then you have the autumn colour too. Acers are great.

Cotinus royal purple and Eucalyptus are good for background colour too.

Thank you all for the suggestions

Evergreen jasmine. I have one with yellowish leaves that has a wonderful scent when it flowers in the summer and another jasmine with larger glossy green leaves that also has highly scented flowers in the summer. Both are climbers so either need a trellis or obelisk.

In pots I have bay, clipped standard holly with berries, pittisporum (I particularly like the variegated ones as they provide a bit of light in the winter), bamboo, mahonia (the birds love the berries and the bees love the flowers) and Rosemary.