Winter Garden Interest
Winter can be tricky for homeowners and gardeners who wish to have year-round interest in their yards. Having plenty of winter interest ensures your yard is always beautiful and full, regardless of the time of the year.
Keeping these tips in mind when planning and installing your garden will help keep your home's exterior stunning year-round!
Conifers
Conifers add beauty and interest in both the summer and winter months. With hundreds (even thousands) of exciting varieties available at local nursery centers, these garden workhorses provide privacy features and year-round interest. Nothing beats the deep, rich green pops of colors that conifers provide during the drab winter months. Conifers come in every shape and size you can imagine – finding the perfect specimen for your garden is a breeze. Commonly used varieties include blue spruce, juniper, arborvitae, cryptomeria, and dwarf Alberta spruce.
Various Conifers
Architectural Plants
While some plants may not provide foliage interest during the cool season, their trunks, bark, shape, and overall structure still create interest throughout your landscape. Commonly used varieties include Japanese maple, paperbark maple, river birch, and red twig dogwoods.
Birch Tree
Red Twig Dogwood
Japanese Maple
Winter Annuals
Nothing adds a pop of color and winter-long interest better than winter annuals. There are countless varieties and colors available that are sure to spruce up your winter landscape so that it is beautiful and full of color all season. Plant winter annuals in mass plantings for an immediate visual impact! Commonly used varieties include pansies, Dusty miller, ornamental cabbage and kale, viola, and snapdragons.
Ornamental Kale
Pansies
Other Evergreens
Our list would only be complete if we included beautiful evergreens that fall outside the conifer species. The list of evergreen shrubs that you can use to create structure and provide consistent color in your garden is far too long to include in total, but rest assured, there are more than enough options to bring constant beauty to your landscape. These plants come in numerous sizes and shapes, their foliage ranges from blues to greens to purples, and their leaf size and shape vary wildly. There is certainly no lack of visual interest when mixing and matching these plants as you weave them throughout your garden! Commonly used varieties include boxwood, azalea, holly, laurel, yew, loropetalum, and viburnum.
Boxwood
Holly
Loropetalum
Need Help with Your Winter Landscape?
Whether you need help planning your landscape from start to finish or adding winter interest to your existing landscape, Botaniscapes Landscape Design and Installation can help bring your vision to life! To schedule a free consultation for a landscaping estimate, request your consultation today, and a member of our team will reach out to you!