Low-Maintenance Evergreen Pots That Look Great All Year-Round

Evergreen pots add structure and sculptural shape to your garden in summer and winter. Plus they're very easy care, and can often live in their pots for years without too much attention. Here are the best plants and plant categories for your year-round pots.
00:00 Why evergreen pots are so good in your garden
00:50 Plant evergreens on their own in a pot or group them together
01:14 Choosing a pot for your evergreen plants
01:59 How to care for your evergreen plants in pots
02:16 Use a slow-release fertiliser in spring to feed your evergreen pots. I've bought and used
02:54 Best evergreens for pots: Dwarf Mountain Pine and dwarf Korean Fir
03:42 Evergreen trees for pots: Juniper, Olive and Bay
05:00 Are ferns evergreen?
05:26 Evergreen shrubs for pots: Skimmia
05:40 Evergreen plants with architectural shapes: Fatsia japonica, cordyline, yucca and phormium
06:29 Ornamental grasses - evergreen and deciduous grasses look good in pots. Try Festuca glauca, Miscanthus and Panicum
07:14 Also try shrubs and trees which are deciduous because their leaves die in winter, but stay on to keep a beautiful winter shape: beech and hornbeam
07:30 Are succulents good for evergreen pots?
07:55 Don't plant this plant in your evergreen pots!

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[terrybouck]

Thank you so much for this video. I contacted to last week, got a very timely response and now your video. Many thanks, much appreciated, Michigan zone 5

[juliabinford]

I love evergreens in pots. I like the versatility of moving potted evergreens out into borders in the winter when trees lose leaves and then moving them into sun again in summer

[michellebeissel]

Ah, perfect timing! After a truly crazy hectic year involving various medical emergencies and a stressful move from our southwest France urban potager, we are now settled in our new home near Portugal's Silver Coast, and well enough now to begin to tackle our huge but completely bare rooftop terrace which flanks a birdsong-filled copse. Great ideas about pots, especially relating to size as heat and wind are concerns. I feel again connected to the uplifting world of gardeners. Thank you!

[TheMag]

Thank you. I am after a pair of evergreen in pots for the new extension door, this comes just at the right time. Cheers xxx

[simwest]

Love your videos, Alexandra. Many azaleas and camelias do well in pots here in Atlanta, GA. Some viburnums and gardenias also do nicely, staying green throughout the winter.

[tubssamterracegardeningvlo]

Hi dear friend good evening very beautiful garden nice collection attractive colours best of luck 💐 stay safe stay connected 🌹

[louisemortlock]

So glad i found this chanel its been so useful for me who has no clue and a large garden to maintain. I'm gaining info as i go thank-you

[folee_edge]

Alexandra - you're back to your beautiful self! As always, I love the video. Such great information 👍

[paulinewqi]

This is a brilliant video ...showing of fantastic variety of pots of evergreens and other plants....pots of various types and sizes...
Thanks for sharing...💝💐

[elainem]

You are so good at explaining, I am new to gardening and have popped back to your videos for reference many times, discovered other helpful tips from people you have mentioned or interviewed. Love your garden. Thanks for all your help and information.

[mikeq]

Alexandra, another wonderful video, great inspiration ! Thank you

[JoannaLouise]

Especially love the dwarf conifers in pots ~ such pretty shapes and colours. One of my favourites is the Mugo.

[MsGnor]

Love your videos Alexandra, so inspiring. Gorgeous Doggie too 🥰❤🐾🐾🌳

[lorimiller]

Great ideas! I have an old trash can, an old juniper, some big pots, some june grass seeds, and some blue grama grass that probably gets too wet. I am putting them all together where I dismantled the fire pit and it will be great.

[teresejohnson]

So informative, and being in US 9B, I find your videos so informative and smart! Thank you and cheers to Spring on the horizon ☘️

[martinichip]

I have been growing in pots salix gracilistyla, red twig dogwoods, baby blue spruces and hinoki cyprus. They are not all evergreens but they all bring great winter interest.😃

[viviennehayes]

I have just started watching your channel and am enjoying it very much. from - as far away from Britain as can possibly be - New Zealand! I have our New Zealand Cordyline - a purple version - in a pot on my deck. It does very well and needs hardly any attention. Another plant that I found is fantastic in a pot - looks great all year round, only needs watering - is the dwarf Nandina: a pot success story if ever there was one!

[MK-wmgu]

This was quite informative. Thank you!

[janettempest]

I love your videos I’ve learned so much thank you 🙏🦋🙏❤️

[bluebell]

Great video Alexander. Thank you for mentioning the giant pots outside Kings Cross Station - they are stunning and a real pleasure for me to see them each time I arrive in London.