Here are my top 10 flowering evergreen perennials, including many that are deer and rabbit resistant! Flowering evergreen perennials usually keep their colorful foliage year-round, adding Winter interest to your garden. Use the Chapter links below to jump to a specific perennial.
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Chapters:
0:00 – Why I made this video
1:53 – What exactly are evergreen perennials?
3:42 – Are evergreen perennials truly evergreen all Winter?
5:08 – Overview of my top 10 list
5:44 – Hellebores
6:33 – Bergenia — Pigsqueak
7:50 – Creeping Phlox — Spring Phlox
9:03 – Candytuft — Iberis
9:48 – Ajuga — Bugle Weed
11:22 – Tiarella — Foamflower
12:35 – Heuchera — Coral Bells
13:40 – Heucherella — Foamy Bells
14:33 – Dianthus — Pinks
16:06 – Lavender
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27 Comments
Thanks for a comprehensive video! 🌱 I appreciate your clear, and detailed descriptions + great visuals! Grateful I don’t have 🐇 pressure in my Zone 4 garden (so far)!
Thanks for the explanation on the Heucherella. This is the best choice for me as my yard lacks shade until the trees grow big enough to provide some.
I have Ajuga and live in zone 6a and it’s not evergreen for me. The plant is good until January and February and it all dies back. I love this plant though. I bought two of them two years ago for my rock garden. The plant is so easy to dig a piece out and turn the top of the soil and place it there. I now have five and will make more this year. Another good plant is a Foam plant for shade and it stays evergreen for me. The plant turns a burgundy in winter and it’s so pretty. Ok never mind you talk about Foam flowers lol.
Hey, Laura! 👋🏻 I’m actually growing some candytuft that I started from seed this yr. It has germinated and is growing like a weed lol!
Heuchera for me definitely not deer resistant, the deer demolish them unfortunately. They did nibble my hellebores for the first time this winter in December, but they left them alone after that. Definitely a favorite perennial of mine because when the snow melts I see them getting ready to flower🥰. Creeping phlox and dianthus also great greenery in winter when we have those snow melts and see ground. Even though it’s a biannual and not perennial foxgloves are a great evergreen choice that’s definitely deer resistant, it does love to reseed so I look at it like a perennial since I have tons of flowering plants every year.
Thank you for this wonderful video. You provide so much information on the plants and flowers. Very well done!
Hi from Robbinsville, NJ! Deer and rabbits can do a lot of damage when they are just tasting so i am going native. So far it’s working! My hellebore are over twenty years old (the deer definitely don’t like them). Happy Gardening!
Deer ate the hellebores in my front yard but not my back yard… so if it’s along one of their high traffic areas it may fall victim but if it’s a bit out of their way then probably safe. I have particularly voracious deer though and live on the edge of the woods. They did not touch my lavender though!
Have never had tiarella but do have heuchera, again they got demolished by deer in the front yard but untouched in the backyard. Keep it to less high traffic deer areas. The deer only occasionally browse my backyard but are in the front yard almost daily.
Zone 6b Northern Arizona here. Having good luck with Euphorbia amygdaloides staying evergreen. Mine just shook off low 20 degrees and 10 inches of snow, came back perky!
I love having the spreading type of creeping phlox. I just dig it up from where I don't want it and either give it away or put it somewhere else in my garden. It works great as an edger between my flower bed and sidewalks–keeps the mulch and soil from running out onto the sidewalk. My tiarellas are some of my favorite spring bloomers and spread very politely. Even the villosa heucheras don't do great here in my zone 7B heat and humidity, but the heucherellas seem to fare better. I can't keep dianthus happy–probably can't get the drainage right in my clay soil, even well-amended. Another great flower evergreen perennial for me is Georgia Blue Veronica. The polar blast in December knocked it back, but it came back as beautifully as ever.
Great info. I’m looking for things to plant under 3 large Crepe Myrtles that get little sun. Heucherella may just work!
What great information! Thank you.
In zone 8 My euphorbia looked amazing all winter with its red stems. Definitely buying more this year
Loved your content .
The bunnies like to mow down my creeping phlox right before it’s about to bloom. 😢 Hardy geraniums are sometimes evergreen and mine have never been eaten.
Thank you, I found this useful. I'm trying to create a South facing bed in Kent in the UK and want most of the plants to be perennial and evergreen. Fortunately I don't have a problem with deer or rabbits but know those that do.
My Erysimum cheiri always does great in the winter aswell as summer.
Slightly off topic, but what is the large shrub behind you?
I have most of the perennials you mentioned growing in my zone 8A garden. Also evergreen are: Stoke's aster, scabious, primrose, euphorbia "Ascot", Veronica "Georgia Blue", and species geranium in my garden Semi-evergreen are Shasta daisies, Farfugeum, and bearded iris. If you like grasses, carex, blue fescue, liriope, and mondo grass are all evergreen.
I’m also in zone 7 southern NJ and the perennials evergreens in my garden are basket-of-gold alyssum, dianthus, silene and penstemon.
I have a lot of these plants that you mentioned. My favorite is regular Phlox, Heucheras & Lavendar. I live in Zone 5. I am going to look for the Pigsqueak this year for my garden. I buy 1 new plant a year. Thanks for the very informative video.
Thank you for your detailed growing guide. There are A Lot of channels to watch one being GA, but non are near as detailed as your videos! Again, thank you! I definitely appreciate your content.
I am very impressed with your knowledge of evergreen perennials. You read my mind that I needed these plants in my garden…thank you!
I am in zone 5b and I think the deer and rabbit resistance depends on what they have to forage through the winters. Last year was a long and rough winter for us and the deer ate our evergreen hedges, my rhododendron, and stripped bark from trees. This year has overall been much milder so far as total snow fall, and we haven’t had deer damage, but we did have some bunnies come through and eat about half my creeping phlox. I’ve had excellent luck with that lavender though! No animal damage and even though we got down to -15F recently the lavender didn’t have any problems and still looks great.
18k views!!!! Well done! ❤️🌱
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Great list 💯 Ajuga is my favorite
I find a great cure for deers and rabbits is
Pots BBQs ovens grills
In deep freezers