Evergreen Euonymus

Solid & dependable. We all need plants like euonymus in our gardens,

- Graham Rice

THIS magazine is full of flamboyant flowers but amongst all the dazzle we need something solid and dependable to give our garden structure and background and consistency – and something we can plant and then more or less forget about.

Step forward the evergreen euonymus, so far off the radar they don’t even have their own common name – unless you include the made up “evergreen spindle tree”. They’ll never feature in anyone’s top ten favourite plants so why do they feature here? Because they’re invaluable, and eight have been awarded the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit.