With its beautiful, long, pink-tinged leaves, the Hawaiian ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa) is a popular house or conservatory plant. And in warmer zones, this eye-catching evergreen can be grown ...

So I bought a few dependable evergreens – a large Fatsia japonica (false castor oil plant), a ... used the fatsia and cordyline as the backbone then built a selection of pots of varying heights.