Evergreens
Splashes of colour in a time of bare branches, winter’s evergreen plants remind us that life is still all around us SCOTS PINE This stately conifer, with its blue-green needles and orangey trunk, is the British Isles’s only truly native pine and can live for up to 700 years.
BAY TREE The aromatic and glabrous-smooth leaves of the bay are equally at home in a winter stew or Christmas wreath.
HOLLY Christmas’s poster child is most impressive when studded with scarlet berries, its jagged defences sheltering birds and hibernating hedgehogs.