The Old Vicarage - Wild Green Garden Plant Directory

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The Old Vicarage Wild Green Garden serves as our living foliage library and studio harvesting site. Browse the index below to explore the plant species, evergreens, and textural stems growing across our grounds.

Garden Plant Directory

Evergreens & Structural Foliage

Durable foliage varieties providing year-round structure, color variation, and bulk for arrangement bases.

  • Euonymus Varieties: Yellow Green, Silver, Green (Driveway), and Meadow borders.

  • Laurels: Cherry Laurel, Standard Laurel, and Spotted Laurel (Aucuba).

  • Conifers & Yew: Soft Green Conifer, Grey Thuja, and Taxus (Yellow Vein Yew).

  • Lonicera (Honeysuckle Shrubs): Green Lonicera, Trailing Green, and Lonicera 'Baggasan's Gold'.

Textural Stems & Botanical Interest

Unique Seed pods, berries, and structural grasses cultivated for floristry mechanics and detail work.

  • Berries & Fruit: Berried Ivy, Variegated Holly, and Nandina domestica ('Sacred Bamboo' with winter berries).

  • Seed Pods & Dried Elements: Physalis (Chinese Lanterns) and Honesty Lunaria (Paper silver dollars).

  • Grasses & Movement: Stipa Gigantica (Golden Giant Oat Grass).

House & Wall Climbers

Vertical plant coverage and house-border specimens.

  • Climbers: Variegated Jasmine (House wall).

  • House Borders: Purple Hebe, Yellow Euonymus, and architectural border plantings.

Flowering Shrubs & Broadleaf Species

Fillers and broadleaf options for movement, color, and texture.

  • Choisya: Mexican Orange Blossom for fragrant, glossy green foliage.

  • Hydrangea querifolia: Oakleaf Hydrangea valued for rich leaf shape and autumn tones.

  • Hebe Varieties: Small Leaf Hebe, Medium Leaf Hebe, and Tall Variegated Leaf varieties.

  • Senecio: Silver-grey foliage for soft tonal contrast.

Plant Directory Summary Table

Category Species & Cultivars Floristry & Garden Use
Euonymus Yellow Green, Silver, Meadow, House & Driveway Green

Foliage bases, color contrast, year-round stem cutting

Laurels & Aucuba Cherry Laurel, Standard Laurel, Spotted Laurel (Aucuba)

Large structural stems, glossy greenery, background foliage

Conifers & Yew Soft Green Conifer, Grey Thuja, Taxus (Yellow Vein)

Winter arrangements, mechanics, fine texture

Lonicera Green, Trailing Green, 'Baggasan's Gold'

Cascading stems, small-leaf detail, foliage fillers

Berries & Pods Berried Ivy, Variegated Holly, Nandina, Physalis, Honesty

Autumn/winter interest, dried floristry, textural focal points

Shrubs & Climbers Choisya, Hydrangea querifolia, Variegated Jasmine, Hebes

Garden structure, scent, broadleaf contrast