Help me find a flowering evergreen

[Anonymous]

Partial sun. Would like one that flowers in the spring/summer but still has leaves in the fall/winter. Suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Azelea
Camellia
Rhododendron
Japanese Viburnum

[Anonymous]

Gumpo azalea (but they stay pretty short)

[Anonymous]

What about a magnolia?

[Anonymous]

Do they have anything that is native to the area like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do they have anything that is native to the area like that?

Kalmia latifolia and Rhododendron maximum. There are others that produce berries, such as bayberry.

[Anonymous]

Op here. That wasn’t me who asked about what’s native. I’m open to anything.

[Anonymous]

Cold hardy gardenia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about a magnolia?

The only reliably evergreen one in this area is Southern Magnolia.

[Anonymous]

Kalmia latifolia needs light shade in the DMV

[Anonymous]

If you want berries in the winter instead of flowers in the summer there’s holly

[Anonymous]

Skip Laurel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Partial sun. Would like one that flowers in the spring/summer but still has leaves in the fall/winter. Suggestions?

Some of the new hardy gardenias are nice. Sarcaccocca is a nice low grower.

[Anonymous]

Nothing is going to bloom all spring and summer except a rose or maybe a hydrangea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is going to bloom all spring and summer except a rose or maybe a hydrangea.

Although deciduous, the leaves on oak-leaf hydrangeas are tenacious and in the DMV a material percentage tend to stay on the bush until they are pushed off by new growth in the spring. Might be worth considering.