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Front Yard Design for Winter Interest part 2 of 2

February 9, 2013 By Jim 1 Comment

Last time, I began to show how winter garden design principles could be used in an actual design.  Now we will complete that simple front yard design I started in Part 1. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design, Winter Tagged With: Crimson Queen, front yard, front yard design, Japanese maple, landscape plan, red twig dogwood, Vinca minor, winter

Front Yard Design for Winter Interest part 1 of 2

February 3, 2013 By Jim Leave a Comment

Today, I would like to show how some of the winter garden design principles I talked about in my last post could be used.  I figured the best way to show this is to do a front yard design using these winter garden design principles. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design, Winter Tagged With: birch, birch 'Madison', front yard design, landscape plan, pine, pinus cembra, winter

Architectural plants for winter gardens

October 7, 2012 By Jim 2 Comments

Architectural plant

I would like to continue the discussion of adding winter season interest to your garden.  In this post I will discuss of the use of architectural plants.  This was suggestion #4 on my post a couple of weeks ago. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design, Four Season garden, Plant recommendations, Winter Tagged With: four season, four season interest, plant form, structure, winter, winter garden, winter interest

Four season interest crabapples

September 29, 2012 By Jim 5 Comments

Backyard to attract birds crabapple added

On my last post, I talked about how to add winter interest to your garden.  Number 5 of my 7 pointers was to add plants with colorful winter berries.  Today, I am going to talk about my favorite type of tree for winter berries, the four season interest crabapple. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Plant recommendations Tagged With: berry, crabapple, four season interest, tree, winter

What is the best evergreen shrub for your foundation?

September 12, 2012 By Jim 3 Comments

BEST EVERGREEN SHRUB? I was recently asked the following question by a visitor to the garden:  “What would be the best evergreen shrub for under my kitchen window in full sun?  I don’t want an arborvitae that turns brown in the winter or an Alberta spruce.  I want something that stays green.” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Evergreen, Plant recommendations Tagged With: bird's nest spruce, boxwood, enci mugo pine, Evergreen, foundation, green velvet boxwood, shrub, winter

Rose care questions

September 8, 2012 By Jim 6 Comments

"Hi, Jim.  I have two questions related to roses.  I have two varieties of roses in my flower bed, although I am not sure what variety either are.  The one was purchased at the Chicago Botanical Garden a few years ago.  It is blooming very well although I am not sure how to prune for the remainder of the season, then how to properly prune in preparation for the winter? The second rose bush (different variety, I believe) I thought I had removed from my garden 3 years ago, however the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening, Pruning Tagged With: fertilizer, pruning, rose, winter

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