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Birds nest spruce is a versatile shrub that’s not for the birds

August 24, 2013 By Jim 17 Comments

Most landscapes have either too much evergreen foliage (i.e. Blue Colorado Spruce taking up the whole front yard) or too little (perennial gardens). So what's a gardener to do? How about instead of adding big spruce and pine trees that get too big, we add more evergreen shrubs to the landscape. In a previous post, I answered a reader’s question about selecting an evergreen shrub to put as a foundation plant. In that post, I mentioned one of my favorite easy care plants. The birds nest spruce … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Plant recommendations Tagged With: birds nest, conifer, Evergreen, shrub, spruce

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