Articles related to "Winter Interest"



Winter Silhouettes in the Garden
There are several plants, both evergreen and deciduous, that have pleasing, striking or unique silhouettes. Learn how to select and use them effectively in the garden.
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Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines
Celebration and Thanksgiving in the fall garden -- some plants for fall and winter interest.
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Using Plants for Winter Interest
Learn the many ways to create interest in the garden landscape even during the winter months. Use some of these techniques for year round beauty.
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Winter Interest IV - Colorful Twigs and Bark
Believe it or not, you can get plenty of bright, hot color in your winter garden - just choose shrubs and trees with brightly colored or patterned bark.

Winter Interest Plants, Part I- My Favorite Winter Shrubs
Here are a few of my favorite winter interest shrubs and why I like them. Could they have a place in your winter garden?
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Winter Interest Plants, Part II- My Favorite Winter Trees
Trees play a prominent part in the winter landscape. Here are some of my favorites and why I love them.
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Yellow or Orange Berry Plants
Yellow, bright orange or golden colored winter berries can make a fantastic splash of color in a garden landscape.
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Weeping Form Deciduous Trees
Six of the best deciduous trees with weeping growth habit and pendulous silhouettes. Is your favorite listed?
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Broadleaf Evergreen Shrubs
Broadleaf evergreen shrubs provide color year round. The following evergreen shrubs are all broadleaf shrubs with green foliage even in the winter.
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English Alba Hybrid Roses
These English Roses are developed from Alba roses giving them the wild-rose daintiness, gently nodding flowers and a lighter scent than other English Roses.
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WHAT winter color??
Its tough to get color and beauty in a winter garden when you live in the frozen north. But all that blankness does have its compensations.
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Variegated Evergreen Shrubs
Variegated evergreen shrubs provide loads of color and interest to the garden, year round. These shrubs all have green with white, yellow or cream colored leaves.
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Winter Garden Interest III - Sculpture and Structure
Trees with interesting forms or exotically contorted branches can function as living sculpture in the garden. Add that to a bit of non-living structure - arbors, trellises, or simply the outlines of the raised beds in a garden can create interest on even the dreariest of winter days.

Colored Evergreen Shrubs
Not all evergreen plants have green leaves. Here is a selection of broadleaf evergreen shrubs with red, purple, silver or other colored foliage.
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Blue and Black Winter Berries
Learn about the plants that provide winter interest with blue, purple or black colored berries.
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Dr. Seuss Trees
"Show me some Dr. Seuss trees" a customer requested. Cascade Falls Weeping Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum ‘Cascade Falls’) is a good selection to accent water gardens.
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Red or Pink Berries in Winter
Let's examine some specific plants with red or pink winter berries now that you've learned some general tips for berries in the winter landscape.
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Seeds and Seedpods for Winter
A detailed discussion of how to add interest to the winter landscape through the use of seeds, seedpods and seedheads on plants.
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Showy Winter Cones
You don't need berries or blossoms to create winter interest. These conifers have showy cones that provide interest and contrast to a winter garden landscape.
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Stunning Plant for November Cortaderia selloana
Perennial Cortaderia selloana, or Pampas grass, throws out stunning feathery plumes offering height and spectacular sights to borders from October into November.
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Using Bark to Add Winter Beauty
Learn how to use the beauty of bark in your garden to add subtle, or not so subtle, interest to the winter landscape.
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Weeping Evergreen Trees
Evergreen trees are used to provide color year-round, but some also have weeping or pendulous form that is extra exciting! See my top six picks.
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Weeping Silhouettes in the Garden
One way of adding interest to the garden is through the use of plants with pendulous, weeping growth habits.
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White Winter Berries
Pale berries echo the beauty of the snow in the winter garden. Learn about a few plants that produce white berries for winter garden interest.
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Yellow Flowering Shrubs for Theme Gardens
These gorgeous shrubs provide interest and backdrop to the yellow themed garden setting off the other flowering plants well.
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Winter Garden Interest V - Berries and Broadleaf Evergreens
There are plenty of plants with bright berries that summon the birds to your winter garden. And there are shrubs and trees that keep their leaves in the cold, adding more color and fullness to the scene.

Growing Shrubs and Perennials in Containers
Growing permanent plants in containers
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Ornamental Grasses
Ornamental grasses are both attractive as a feature in the winter garden, but also can give needed food for winter birds.
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Echinacea Purpurea Plant Profile
Purple coneflowers or Echinaceas are fabulous perennial plants for use in a wide variety of gardening landscapes. See how to select and grow Echinacea plants.
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Perennial Plants for Dry Shade
The soil under trees can be dry even with regular watering because the roots use the moisture quickly. See seven perennials that thrive in difficult shady conditions
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Red Winter Fruits
In this article we will look at two different plants that produce showy red fruits in the winter.
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Weeping Deciduous Shrubs
A look at six of the best weeping form deciduous shrubs. Did your favorite make the list?
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Spring is a Dud so Far - but Here's Cheer!
Spring began in a flurry of snow and a spate of dropping temperatures. Still, out in the garden there was color and cheer that gives us hope.

Welcome Flower Gardeners
Welcome to Flower Gardens! We’ll help you design and grow your dream flower garden. Practical Advice and Inspiration for the beginning and advanced flower gardener. How t
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Evergreen Plants in Winter Gardens
Learn some guidelines for using evergreens in the garden to provide winter interest. Look at the types of evergreens available, and variety of uses for your landscape.
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Organic Garden Seeds of Autumn
Organic gardening opens the door for seeds to germinate wherever they fall. No herbicides will interfere. Nature provides rich rewards for the receptive garden.
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Part 2 Vines for the Rockies.Part 2 Vines for the Rockies.
Part 2 Vines for the Rockies.
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Subtle Seedheads
The contribution of decorative seedheads to the winter garden
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Beautiful Winter Flowers
Let's examine a some of the winter blooming plants that we can add to our gardens to create that year round beauty and interest. Add some winter color and excitement!
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Bright Berries for Winter Gardens
Learn how to use plants with winter fruits or berries to add color and delight to your garden. There are so many delightful trees, shrubs and others to choose from!
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Drought Tolerant Plants Attracting Pollinators
Butterfly weed and lantana are used in xeriscape gardening to attract bees, butterflies or hummingbirds. These drought tolerant plants are food sources for pollinators.
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Fall-Blooming Cut Flower Plants
Fall is a time of richness and warmth in the garden. See some of the best autumn cut flower plants you can grow to bring that beauty indoors.
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Foliage for the White Garden
To enhance the overall effect of your white garden or moon garden design, plant gray, blue, silver or white variegated foliage plants along with your white flowers.
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Growing Firethorn Plant Profile
Attractive evergreen shrubs can be trained up walls and fences as a colorful backdrop for other perennial plants and garden borders.
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Low Maintenance Garden Plants
Everyone wants foundation landscapes that look great, but not everyone wants to spend hours in the garden each week. These plants are easy keepers that look great!
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New World Plants
Many of the plants that we take for granted are native to the New World. The plants of the western hemisphere have enriched the world, and have enhanced the lives of people far away from the lands of their origins.
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Plants for Butterfly Gardens
These flowering shrubs and perennial plants are all known to attract butterflies to the garden. Flowers and flutters - what could be better?
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Sedum Autumn Joy
For the novice or veteran gardener, few plants afford the perennial success of Sedum 'Autumn Joy.'
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Summer in the Flower Garden
Continue caring for your annual and perennial flower gardens in the summer months to ensure a continuous succession of blooms until first frost.
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Verbena Plant Profile
Graceful clusters of bright flowers attract gardeners and butterflies equally. See why these charming plants are great for more than just hanging baskets and containers.
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