**THE EVERGREEN SAGA** 3!!

Great! Fantastic variety.

Thank you very much Linda.....

As usual your garden looks brilliant even in the depths of winter, thanks to all those lovely evergreens. Like particularly the last 2 plants, the Hebe and the Coronilla.

You're welcome Sue......the back garden is a tad messy ... especially the pergola area, covered with pots, and garden furniture....and there are several fleeced plants, bottlebrush and Pseudopanax that were moved late last Autumn, the front is looking very pretty with all the cyclamen flowering and the heuchera and of course the conifers always shine at this time of the year.....is you're pretty garden doing well, not suffered any casualties in the frost?

this blog is a real treat. Skimmia are one of my favourite shrubs and I have known them all my life. I now have several named varieties . I don't grow tender ones as OH hates fleeced plants so I will enjoy yours :o)

Your garden must look wonderful - really enjoyed this blog. I do love the variegated Skimmia - you showed it once before I think. I'd love one of those but my two Skimmias skowly died, the trouble whatever it was proogressing slowly down the bed over several years.So I'd hate to serve a death sentence on a new one. I will just enjoy yours instead. All your lovely plants look amazingly healthy!

Everything is so healthy and shiny. Your garden must look splendid at this time of year as well as the other 11 months!
Have really enjoyed your 3 recent blogs.

An excellent end to three very enjoyable blogs on evergreens! How ever do you mange to cram so many different evergreens into you garden? Is it the size of a park or what???

Balcony on the contrary......we only have a small plot, but we pack em in, and prune, prune, and prune again!!
Wildrose I am so pleased you enjoyed my blogs, the front garden looks good all year....thanks to OH.....but the back has a lot of perennials, which have been cut back, some areas are fine (obviously the evergreen ones) but others a tad messy!
Stera that Skimmia has been photographed more times than the late Lady Diana..lol ! I would be devastated to lose any of them....we had to ditch a wonderful collection of Pieris,some over 15 years old.....so I am hoping these Skimmia will stay healthy...
Seaburn.....I can't say I like having to fleece some of our plants, not the most attractive sight on a winter's day! luckily Skimmia are fairly tough!
Thank you all for taking the time to comment on my blogs.....

Lovely selection of evergreen shrubs DD. The variegated leaves and red berries add some interest and colour. Looks like the Arctic is coming to greet us in a few days, but I wonder how much snow we will really get....not too much I hope!

Thanks Linda, I don't object to the snow, as long as it doesn't hang on and then start freezing, that's when the damage is done!

With my new knees I shall have to be careful!!!

Lovely. I feel you must have a big garden, but you say not, you just pack them in & prune. Can you give us the dimensions of your plot? I would love to know.

This third blog is up there with the previous two Dotty ... I have three Hebes still flowering away ... not been around the garden today as it's bitterly cold ... slight snowfall overnight but it's all gone now.

Thanks Shirley pleased you enjoyed them......
Feverfew the back garden measures 60ft X 30ft, the conservatory takes a large chunk out of those measurements and a porch, we have a side entrance where we grow most of the tropical plants which is about 30ftX just under 8ft if that helps!!
Linda you certainly will have to be careful with those new knees of yours!!

DD the measurements of your garden are 10X my balcony!!!

Small is beautiful Balcony!!