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Sturdy plants such as Viburnum davidii, Soft Caress Mahonia and ferns cover the ground with a variety of evergreen textures.

Imagine yourself having cocoa by the fire pit or under a heated arbor, watching a hummingbird nuzzle a mahonia, while wrapped in a tapestry of evergreen color, peeling bark and intoxicatingly scented flowers.

Whether designing for hummers or humans, Butler includes Camellia sasanqua, Grevillea victoriae, Mahonia, and other winter-flowering trees and shrubs that offer nectar until spring blooms arrive.

That was before Christmas: a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flowering evergreen called a mahonia.

The mahonia is a spiny evergreen shrub, hollylike, that usually blooms in February and March.