Evergreen Flowering Plants

Angel's Trumpet

Huge pendant trumpets release intense evening fragrance over a long warm-season bloom.

Bergenia

Bold rubbery leaves provide year-round structure and turn burgundy in winter. Early pink flowers arrive with the hellebores.

Blue Oat Grass

Compact clumps of steel-blue blades provide year-round color and texture.

Carolina Jessamine

One of the first vines to bloom each year, smothering itself in fragrant bright yellow tubes in late winter and early spring.

Crossvine

Tubular orange-red trumpets line this vigorous semi-evergreen vine in spring, attracting every hummingbird in the neighborhood.

Gardenia

Glossy evergreen foliage frames intensely fragrant white flowers from late spring into summer.

Hawaiian Hibiscus

Large tropical blooms in vivid colors appear repeatedly from spring through fall.

Lenten Rose

Nodding flowers in late winter when nothing else is blooming. Evergreen foliage adds year-round structure to shade gardens.

Mandevilla

Glossy vines are covered in showy trumpet flowers from early summer to frost in warm climates.

Manzanita

Smooth red bark with urn-shaped flowers that feed hummingbirds in late winter. Sculptural beauty.

Meyer Lemon

Sweetly scented white blossoms appear intermittently year-round and set thin-skinned lemons.

Oregon Grape

Holly-like evergreen with yellow flower clusters followed by blue berries. Tough, shade-loving native.

Pieris

Chains of lily-of-the-valley flowers dangle over colorful new growth. Year-round structure for shady borders.

Pink Dipladenia

Bushy form with glossy foliage and abundant pink trumpets suited to pots and borders.

Pink Plumeria

Clusters of pink, sweetly scented blooms cover this classic tropical tree in summer.

Salal

Leathery evergreen groundcover of Pacific Northwest forests. Urn-shaped flowers lead to edible berries.

Southern Magnolia

Huge glossy-leaved tree bearing enormous lemon-scented white flowers. The quintessential symbol of the Deep South's summer.

Sweet Olive

Small clustered flowers perfume the garden with an apricot-like scent over a long season.

Twinspike Coral Bells

Warm amber-caramel foliage that glows in the shade garden all season. The flowers are just a bonus.

White Plumeria

Highly fragrant white flowers with yellow centers appear in clusters on succulent branches.

Winter Daphne

Clusters of pink buds open to white, intensely scented blooms in late winter.