Year round foliage and blooms

Suggestions for a native species that would have year round foliage, and also blooms occasionally. OR has blooms year round. My client is asking for roses, I am not sure if this is feasible?

 

Assuming this gets regular water, it would also be useful to know how much sun the wall gets.

 

Little to no natural light as it is on a covered patio (but will have automatic irrigation) supplemental lighting will be installed if required by the plant species

 

Here are some native plants I have grown and am familiar with. There are no evergreen native plants I have ever heard of that bloom year-round. With some notable exceptions, most do not have particularly flashy flowers but, growing on a wall, even smaller flowers can be appreciated close up.

I'd worry a little that if your client envisions the look of roses, they may be a bit disappointed with many native plant choices that would grow well on the wall. I'd be thinking green with occasional flashes of colour.

Deer Fern and Narrow-leaved Sword Fern might grow 30 cm outward from the wall but the rest of the ferns and the perennials I've listed would stay quite tight.

BC Native Plants for a Low-light Wall
Ferns
Aspidotis densa Indian’s Dream
Asplenium trichomanes Maidenhair Spleenwort
Blechnum spicant Deer Fern
Cryptogramma acrostichoides Parsley Fern
Pentagramma triangularis Goldenback Fern
Polypodium glycerhiza Licorice Fern
Polystichum imbricans ssp. imbricans Narrow-leaved Sword Fern

Evergreen Perennials (useful as groundcovers)
Antennaria microphylla Rosy Pussytoes
* Asarum caudatum Wild Ginger
Dryas octopetala White Mountain Avens
Fragaria vesca Woodland Strawberry
Heuchera micrantha Small-flowered Alumroot
Lewisia columbiana Columbia Lewisia
Lewisia cotyledon Bitterroot
Linnaea borealis Twinflower
Micranthes integrifolia Grassland Saxifrage
* Mitella ovalis Oval-leaved Mitrewort
Phlox diffusa Spreading Phlox
Rhodiola integrifolia Ledge Stonecrop
Sedum oreganum, S. spathulifolium or others
Silene acaulis Moss Campion

* Don't like much sun at all.

 

Did I miss the original post specifying this is a wall installation ?

i don’t know about bloom all year —- I would probably say « year round interest »

is this a wall? Please confirm.

what plants were identified in that (I think) West Van wall you posted about Sept. 2021?

 

I assumed this was a continuation of a thread started by @Amanda Living Walls -
Hort Consultant Needed for Living Wall in Vancouver!

 

I understand

Again I say - year round interest

the only year round bloom are from Dollar store :) (And they don’t look too bad mixed in with real foliage - I have tried it.)

i do like the original Heuchera when it became popular (bronze beauty or was it palace purple?)

sword ferns of course

salal takes ages to fill out and once established is lovely native

plus all the other plants you list above @Margot

as nice and modern as the living plant walls look - I am not convinced that I would personally put one on a conventional wood frame building on our climate at coast — reasons incl rodents and moisture and maintenance

that said - I have never seen the inner workings of such a wall of plants so I am open to learning more.

 

This is a different project, but yes - also going to be vertical. Either using a living wall technology (multiple plantings in pockets or something similar) or plantings at the bottom that can vine up some mesh/wires/trellis.