Winter landscape design

Discover the best shrubs for winter that will keep your garden vibrant all year long. From evergreen plants for year-round color to low maintenance shrubs perfect for shade, these winter garden plants offer beauty and interest even in the coldest months. Enhance your curb appeal with stylish winter flowers and create a no-care landscape with these top picks. Add a touch of green to your outdoor space with these shrubs for winter interest that are perfect for any garden style.

These are dark days indeed. All traces of life slowly fade from the landscape as the hours shorten and shadows lengthen. The autumnal dance now done, the trees lie brittle and bare to the sky. The last perennials splay and shiver like a ghost army defeated by the rain and wind. But with this kind of darkness, there is nothing to fear.

And since this is a climate with loooong, snowy winters, winter interest was carefully considered in planning this garden. The sculpture and grasses will show up all winter long. And there are yellow twig dogwoods that stick out of the snow behind the clump paper birch. The birch will develop striking black and white bark that will be beautiful year round too.

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LUZ: Today’s Šmartinski Park used to be a vast area of informal and individuals allotment gardens. In the municipal spatial planning documents the area was defined as green space and an infrastructural corridor, but in reality it was covered with garden beds and sheds, cut by a traffic road and crossed by a few main […]

There are many ways to create winter interest in the garden. To look at winter gardening in a whole new light, view this collection of winter combinations.

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An after-dark trip to see the winter light show at Anglesey Abbey just before Christmas made me think about the origins of gardens especially designed and planted for the more inhospitable months o…