Foliage Interest

Showy Trees for Winter Interest in the Pacific Northwest

December 19, 2008 4 comments

It’s getting pret-ty darn chilly outside, and I don’t know about you, but most of my gardening activity in the last couple weeks has been planning, dreaming, and viewing my garden from indoors, thank you very much. Even my chickens are resting in their toasty coop a good portion of the day, and they have [...]

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Rhododendrons – Little-Known Favorites for Winter

November 30, 2008 3 comments
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If you’ve been following my Fall Planting Series, you’ll know why fall is such a great time of year to plant! This is also the perfect time to see where your garden is lacking in winter interest, and to add some year-round stars to perk things up. Rhododendrons are one of my favorite plants now, [...]

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Cheerful Grasses Add Color and Movement to Your Winter Garden

November 19, 2008 5 comments
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If you’ve read a gardening magazine in the last ten years, you know how hot ornamental grasses are. We rely on them for a bold foliage accent, but so many go dormant in winter, just when we most want their striking foliage display. The solution? Check out these five favorite grasses that DON’T go dormant [...]

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Small Plants to Enhance Your Winter Garden

November 13, 2008 6 comments

While the twigs and branches of dormant shrubs have their own interest, if your garden doesn’t have much variety in winter, things can be dull. A quick fix for those bare areas is to tuck a few winter-interest fillers in the foreground, to bring a prettily arching form, bright foliage color, or some cheerful blooms [...]

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Five Often-Overlooked Shrubs for Gorgeous Winter Color

November 3, 2008 5 comments

So we’ve talked about why you want to plant in fall – you don’t have to water as much, plants get their roots well established through the winter, and there’s less transplant shock – meaning those plants you paid top dollar for will be glowing with health in the spring! But it can be rather [...]

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