14 Eye-Catching Shrubs to Add Interest to Your Winter Landscape
Winterberry
Firethorn
Hollys
Witch Hazel
Winter Daphne
Red Twig Dogwood
Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick
Japanese False Cypress
Dwarf Arborvitae
Snowberry
https://www.bhg.com/gardening/trees-shrubs-vines/shrubs/shrubs-with-winter-interest/
Yes, I KNOW! Nothing you can do about it NOW - but the Winter months are for PLANNING for NEXT season. :)
I am in Zone 5a, and my FAVORITE winter-combo (and one I’ve sold to many customers through the years) is:
An Evergreen of your choice
A ‘clump of three’ Japanese Whitespire Birch
A Red Twig Dogwood
After Beau took down the ‘deader than dead’ ancient Cottonwood tree in the front corner of the house yard, I added this planting combo. I also did the same in one of our tree lines coming up the driveway where we had some Evergreens die in the drought of 2012, which left a gap.
Totally GORGEOUS, and the local birds love it for daytime winter shelter. It doesn’t look like much in the Summer months, but in Winter, against the snow? Gorgeous, Darling! Gorgeous!
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I chopped down the tomato, pepper, and few remaining basil plants (frosty sticks) today.
Stowed the tomato cages.
But as far as next season goes - today I also got out the seed starter
trays and covered greenhouse trays and washed them.
I'll start the first vegetable seedlings indoors by the windows around
the end of February.
I'll start looking through the seed catalogs when they arrive.
The gardening proceeds forward!
Just for the heck of it...
COZUMEL
Product Description:
53 days. This very early Caribe-type pepper produces
attractive and tasty, 4 inch long blonde fruit that
matures through a sunset of rosy orange tones to a final
red color. Thick walled and juicy, the flavor develops
from mildly spicy to fruity balanced with tingly fire.
