An evergreen solution to dark problems
I am a terrible horticultural voyeur, forever peering over fences as I wander round my patch of central London. I find it fascinating what people can achieve in such small spaces, what plants they can get away with and the atmosphere they can create against all adversity.
However, there is one horticultural conundrum that even the most successful urban gardeners often find hard to crack: what to grow as ground cover in small, dark, urban spaces. You see an awful lot of white pebbles stained black by the city air, sun-loving summer bedding sulking in deep shade and (my nemesis) threadbare patches of artificial turf. But a group of plants will thrive in these dark, dingy conditions and provide perpetual clothing of green, even in the darkest depths of winter: evergreen ferns.
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