Container plants for shadyporch

quitecontrary

Help please: suggestions for container plants, pref evergreen for a shady porch on north side of the house. Not asking much I know!

K67

You can grow evergreen ferns in shade in pots. Harts’ Tongue Fern (any fern starting with ‘Asplenium’) is evergreen. 
Sarcoccoa evergreen scented flowers jan/feb. 
Fibrious begonia or bizzy lizzies for summer colour.
Some clematis will work but you need a fair size pot.
Ivy to trail over the edge.
Fatsia but won't be a long term plant for a pot.
It is an open porch?

quitecontrary

Thanks for suggestions, yes it’s an open porch.

Athelas

Also have a look at hellebores and skimmia. For ferns, Polystichum polyblepharum is evergreen and easy to maintain — just needs all the old leaves cutting off each spring and the new ones quickly grow out

KeenOnGreen

Astelia Nervosa or Westmoreland.  Needs minimal maintenance, looks stunning.

WildFlower_UK

I have a similar shady front 'garden' and have bought ready to plant up in containers: Polystichum setiferum ‘Herrenhausen’; Asplenium scolopendrium; 

Sarcococca hookeriana ‘Purple Stem’; and Vinca minor ‘Argenteovariegata’ (plus another vinca minor but can't remember what). All are evergreen. I'll be adding some other flowering plants for all year round colour; ideally snowdrops for winter and not sure yet about summer.