Plants with wintertime interest

Many people don’t consider winter a season in their gardens but there are a good number of plants that look good or interesting or attract wild life all year round.  These plants generally have wintertime berries, beautiful bark, hold their structure in the harsh winter months or have great textures.  Below are some ideas for plants that at least one if not many of these characteristics:

viburnum

crabapple tree

 
crab apple

Miscanthus

Miscanthus

red dogwood

red dogwood

amur cherry tree bark

river birch bark

dwarf blue spruce

spruce

spruce

Landscape Design Project, St. Paul MN

While setting off late summer to photograph our work we came across this garden we design/installed (and still maintain) a couple of years ago.  It’s really maturing beautifully.