Garden Design For Winter Interest

My top 5 plants for winter interest.

Garden design for winter interest. Plants with winter interest. In the summer ornamental grasses add sweeping background to your other plants in your garden. A quick and easy way to add dramatic winter interest is to plant deciduous shrubs or trees with colorful stems and twigs.

Well hopefully i can help. I recently walked through a new client s garden where she kept apologizing for its appearance. The following collection highlights those unsung heroes of the garden.

In the winter these same grasses can take center stage. I told her that winter is the perfect time for me to see what s going on in her garden without the distraction of flowers and foliage. Welcome to part 2 of designing a winter garden.

In this blog post i will talk about my 5 top plant recommendations for brightening up a dull winter garden with a pop of colour. It just shows that with good design and planting you can have a garden which looks great in winter too. Attracting the eye with their bright showy colors the twigs may be brilliant scarlet olive green greenish yellow or even black.

She was afraid it was too early in the year for me to really get a clear picture of what it usually looks like. In the articles that follow you will find trees with electric yellow bark shrubs that bloom when the snowflakes fly and hearty woody plants that provide eye catching silhouettes when covered in snow. The rest of your winter interest will come from the muted colors of seed heads berries and evergreens.

They may be straight or feature lovely curling shapes. January 14 2021 january 14 2021. One easy piece of structure you can add to your winter garden design is ornamental grasses.