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...]