Cast-Iron Plant

Cast-Iron Plant is popular evergreen garden plant in Japan. This plant is very easy to grow in shaded area; it needs almost no care at all. Cast-Iron Plant often used as ground cover or pot plant. In Japan we call this plant as “Haran (葉蘭)” and often used cut leaves for decorating Japanese foods especially sushi and sashimi.

Sacred Lily

Sacred Lily is popular plant in Japan and we enjoy this plant by developing its leaves in several color patterns even though the red berries of this plant are also attractive as you can see on the picture. We call Sacred Lily as “Omoto (万年青)” in Japan and the meaning of the Kanji letters is green for ten thousands year because Sacred Lily is evergreen perennial plant. This plant is not popular in USA but it is good as ground covers or as foliage plant.

English Ivy

English Ivy is not native plant of USA but by its invasive character, this Ivy is very popular in the states which face Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. English Ivy is a evergreen plant so when it climb up some old building it create some kind of good atmosphere, but when it climb up a big tree, it usually kill the tree in several years. So if you plant this Ivy, you need careful planning and attention for growing this plant.

Here you can find more detail information for English Ivy.

Stinking Cedar

Stinking Cedar is very rare tree now even though there were many more in the beginning of 20th century. Stinking Cedar is evergreen yew family tree and grows 12m (40 feet) and forms pyramidal shape.

Creeping Juniper

Creeping Juniper is great evergreen ground cover plant. It grows 0.6m (2 feet) height and 3m (10feet) width in full sun and relatively dry area, and it is easy to take care of it. So the important point for planting Creeping Juniper is to keep wide enough area for each of it, never plant it in dense condition.

Leaves of Evergreen Maple

Evergreen Maple is something strange sound. This is one of few evergreen maple leaves. The origin of this maple is China. This maple grows a little bit slowly up to 9m (30feet) height and width and if planted in warm climate area, the leaves of this tree keep green even in winter season.

Leaves of Leaves of Japanese Holly Fern

Japanese Holly Fern is dark green evergreen beautiful fern and good for house plant. It forms 60cm (2 feet) height and 90cm (3 feet) width round mound and like partial shade or full shaded area.

Yellow Berries American Holly

American Holly is popular in southern area of US. This evergreen holly grows slowly in dry or wet area up to 15m height and 12m width. Even though the berries of American Holly are told as poisonous for human, many wild birds eat them in winter season. The holly of this picture is yellow berries version.

Evergreen SpiceBush

Evergreen SpiceBush has glossy beautiful leaves and the flowers of this shrub are small greenish yellow and not so showy. This shrub prefers to be planted in the area of partial shade. This shrub grows up to 2.5m (8 feet) tall.

Sacred Lily

Sacred Lily is evergreen clumps and easy to take care of it. You can plant Sacred Lily in shaded area or partially shaded area and don’t need any attention after that. This plant has red berries in fall through winter.