Ten brilliant winter evergreen ground cover plants!

This week on The Horti-Culturalists we're looking at plants that give you wonderful luscious foliage and form in the depths of winter when your spring ephemerals are yet to emerge and bleak bare patches in the garden can be a bit depressing! All are shade loving, some like dry shade and some flower, but really, it's all about the foliage form and colour.
The plants we'll look at in this video are:
Hellebores
Danae racemosa - Alexandrian laurel
Eomecon chionantha - Snow Poppy
Pachyphragma macrophyllum
Asarum caudatum - Wild Ginger
Arum italicum 'White Winter'
Arum cyrenaicum
Iris foetidissima
Iris foetidissima Variegata
Trachystemon orientalis - Russian Borage
You can find our Hellebore video here: • How to grow Hellebores...
And you can find our Arum video here: • Plant profile: eight g...
0:00 introduction to winter ground covers
2:10 Hellebores
3:59 Danae racemosa - Alexandrian laurel
5:34 Eomecon chionantha - Snow Poppy
8:18 Pachyphragma macrophyllum & Asarum caudatum - Wild Ginger
13:58 Arum italicum 'White Winter' & Arum cyrenaicum
15:42 Iris foetidissima & Iris foetidissima Variegata
18:34 Trachystemon orientalis - Russian Borage

[@TheCoffeeBushKid]

Thanks Stephen and Matt. That was really useful and also entertaining. New subscribers. Love the jacket Stephen. Haha just joking. Thanks for the Bird Cherry this morning. Viv and Andrew

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Well you didn’t let the grass grow. Welcome aboard and I hope you enjoy our videos. Regards Stephen

[@Ash_9]

From reseerch, Gladwin means sword-grass derived from the Latin ‘gladius’ meaning sword.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thank you!

[@franconianable]

Excellent topic. Always enjoy your uploads and have learned a lot from your expertise. Asarum caudatum is one of our western US natives. Coastal redwood forests and more northerly forests up to British Columbia. Haven’t tried the Asian species but those are quite striking in leaf pattern and those seem to do well for us.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@1Kent]

I was so taken with the arum italicum that I stopped the video went to Etsy and bought it!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Well done, I’m glad there are other compulsives like myself and Matthew out there! Regards Stephen

[@susanneimgarten3055]

@Steve: very nice and extraordinaire jacket❤

[@makbruno1]

Now all he need to do is to rock a tune out wearing that jacket

[@thehorti-culturalists]

I would get me to sing if I were you. Regards Stephen

[@thehorti-culturalists]

An old jacket which has been very visibly mended much to my pleasure. Regards Stephen

[@dewdan11dnd46]

Thanks, this video has greatly helped, to pop some interest in those barer areas. 🫶👍

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@doonslove9693]

Perfectly timed video!! I was just thinking that my plan of the daffodils giving some greenery under the trees didn’t work out as impactful as I thought!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@LearningtoGarden]

Thank you

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@sannaericditsler4034]

As always very interesting.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@suzannebartow6390]

I have that asarum winter white here in zone 6 USA and absolutely love it...not invasive and what it does is simple to pull out. The orange seed pods are gorgeous.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

I agree it is a lovely plant. Regards Stephen

[@MDA-rs4uf]

I'm trying euphorbia amygdaloides as an evergreen ground cover which is doing what I want it to do. I like the foliage and it requires very little from me and just keeps going. So far so good. I also like the evergreen Solomon seal which I don't know the genus or species but it tolerates very cold and requires less than nothing from me.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Both great ideas and I guess the list is much larger than we had time to cover. Regards Stephen

[@makbruno1]

Love Arum Metallicum

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for the Arum love!

[@besottedorchids3605]

I think the white Arum is beautiful. Also I have grown borage this yr in Ohio. Should I expect it to reseed?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

It usually does self seed. Regards Stephen

[@lynnewirth5523]

I have a thug in the garden- Vinca major- any ideas for eradication? Central West NSW Enjoy your different videos each week.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately the only way to deal with it is to dig it out, roundup will work but will take several applications and even then you will need to dig out the leftovers. Regards Stephen

[@heatherrachel8418]

All so wonderful, but many not readily available unfortunately.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@Salmagundiii]

Great video as usual. What is the broadleaved evergreen with red flowers or berries behind Matthew in the opening scene?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

It is Aucuba japonica ‘Longifolia’. Regards Stephen

[@thehorti-culturalists]

It appears in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqemlmp_iqt8r5I

[@TanyaD22]

My burning question is how to grow cyclamen. I feel like I’ve tried all conditions and they elude me 🥺

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Deciduous shade is usually all you need for the species Cyclamen to flourish. Regards Stephen

[@thehorti-culturalists]

We have a Cyclamen video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foGyeauOjJyfpdU

[@TanyaD22]

Thank you

[@heatherrachel8418]

Anyone able to locate any of these species in their local nurseries or online? I'm not having much luck.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

I stock most of them at my Mt. Macedon nursery Dicksonia Rare Plants. But it depends on where you are as to whether that helps. Regards Stephen

[@heatherrachel8418]

@@thehorti-culturalists many thanks, not in my area but I'll keep up the hunt online.