Some plant ideas please.....

Mummer

Depends where you are,in UK? Or further? North/south/east/West? It makes a vast difference as to what will or won't survive! Check very carefully the hardiness of your choices and recommend of locations where they will survive or you may find yourself in a heavy loss financially! Plants are expensive and some places will sell specimens totally unsuited to outdoor growing in some areas.be careful and happy planting! On a high note, put as many cards/narcissus/crocus as your can shove in!!! They're a delightful repeat performance for very little outlay!

What are cards?

Suggestions please.

I live in a little town house in Dorset, where we have to keep our bins at the front. The ivy covered trellis that used to hide the bins, came down in the recent storm. I don't want to replace it, and I've cut down the ivy.

I want to plant something as an alternative that will grow to bin height, stay evergreen, and hopefully produce flowers. I don't want anything with roots that will damage the house foundations, and whatever I plant will be in competition with next door's hedge, for water.

All suggestions considered! Thanks.

p.s.
Sorry if I appear to have highjacked someone else's thread! I couldn't see how to start a new one.

Brunnera macrophylla are clump forming, flowers like forget me nots and attractive foliage. They don’t suffer from mildew either!

Mummer, I wish my Alchemilla Mollis could hear you!.
We have a very small clump and it is not spreading.

Alchemilla conjuncta.. smaller leaf with silver serrated edges.. much finer version of A. Mollis..

Also some of the lower growing forms of hardy geraniums..

Auntieflo

*Mummer*, I wish my Alchemilla Mollis could hear you!.
We have a very small clump and it is not spreading.

They behave for a number of years to lull you into a false sense of security then when your back is turned they take over your garden.
You have been warned!

A vote for heucheras from me. Here in my Herfordshire garden it keeps most of its leaves over winter, has delightful long spires of small flowers for months as long as you deadhead them and grows in nice neat clumps. They sometimes push themselves out of the ground and get a bit leggy but it's easy to just take cuttings or replant them lower down in the ground. And the many varieties with differing leaf and flower colour is tremendous!

Espee I totally agree with you! Beware too of verbena and violets…..if they like you they take over!

I have a lot of success with alchemilla alpina in full sun. Unlike its cousin mollis, it doesn’t invade. It’s low growing and its outlined leaves look particularly good when dappled with rain drops.
I also have low-growing Euonymus in various colours which I’d recommend.
In winter the spiralling leaves of euphorbia myrsinites look stunning when covered in frost. However the plant grows like topsy and the sap released when it is cut is an irritant.

Euphorbia myrsinites.

Mrs Tagain, how about privet ? Old fashioned but easy to manage. Or dogwood- not evergreen but it is still good to look at in winter. Or you could plant some tall grasses.

Trisha57 - looks as though I may not be a million miles from you!