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?
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.