Tag Archives: year-round interest

Blue Shag Pine Brings Soft Year-Round Texture to the Garden

November 18, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Virtues: We love Pinus strobus ‘Blue Shag’ for its lustrous, dense foliage that creates a spectacular, “shaggy” display of beautiful blue-green bundles of short needles, soft to the touch.

Plant Matrona Sedum for Cold-Season Interest

November 5, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Virtues: We love Sedum ‘Matrona’ for its stunning, blush colored flower heads that bloom atop of stout, radiant red stems in late summer lasting into fall. Beneath the large flower heads you will find a spectacular display of lush, silverish-green …

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Do This Before You Make a Fence or Hedge

August 26, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Fences are great for not only barricading yards with extra security, but also a wonderful way to add a little more aesthetic charm to landscape designs. With the right fence, you can secure your yard and create your own personal …

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Book Review: Powerhouse Plants

May 10, 2013 | Kylee Baumle | 0

Powerhouse Plants 510 Top Performers for Multi-Season Beauty by Graham Rice 284 pages Timber Press, 2013 List price: $24.95 After the brutal summer we experienced last year here in the U.S., many gardeners are looking to garden a little differently. …

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Tidying Up Heuchera Plants by Pruning Them

May 6, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Heucheras, commonly referred to as coral bells, are stunning, shade-loving foliage plants with an abundance of different varieties in varying vibrant colors. Although beautiful, these charming evergreen perennials often can become ratty after a harsh winter. However there is a …

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Pagoda Dogwood, A Truly Elegant Garden Tree

April 22, 2013 | Meghan Shinn | 0

Virtues: We love pagoda dogwood for its elegant form and small size, which makes it a great specimen tree for a small garden space. This ornamental spring-flowering tree attracts birds with its late-summer fruit and it can host the larvae …

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Oregon Grape: A Flowering, Fruiting, Evergreen Native Shrub

April 16, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Virtues: We love Oregon grape for the striking foliage with new growth emerging in spring in a radiant shade of bronze-red, changing into a rich green; in mid-spring, bursts of tiny, fragrant, bright yellow flowers bloom, followed by clusters of …

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Redwing Cranberrybush: a Flowering, Fruiting Native Viburnum

March 15, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Virtues: We love American cranberry bush for its rich green foliage and the charming clusters of tiny, white flowers that bloom through late spring, later revealing small, cranberry-red berries in fall.

Dwarf Fetterbush, a Small Evergreen Flowering Shrub

March 4, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Virtues: We love Leucothoe fontanesiana ‘Nana’ for its leathery, rich, deep green leaves that rest upon gracefully arched stems, transforming into stunning shades of purple, red, bronze and burgundy in fall through winter. Clusters of perfumed white flowers bloom in …

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Filifera Falsecypress: An Evergreen Tree with Great Texture

February 12, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Virtues: We love sawara falsecypress for its hreadlike foliage in vibrant shades of greens to golden yellows that dangles down in a spectacular weeping effect, gracefully covering the smooth, stunning reddish-brown trunk, which peels away its bark in vertical plates.

Japanese Maples: Small Trees with Great Colorful Foliage

January 29, 2013 | Maria Woodie | 0

Virtues: We love Japanese maples for their bursts of striking foliage color in radiant shades of yellows, oranges, reds and purples. In spring to early summer, small, deep red flowers bloom, hidden under the attractive foliage.