Winter Wonderland - Spruce-up Curb Appeal With Winter Landscaping

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There is a trend toward property buyers who are attracted to year-round, outdoor visual flair. Regardless of whether you are staging your residence for potential buyers, or yearning a garden that blooms forth in the winter, there are a number of colorful suggestions for creating a winter paradise in your own backyard.

Give some thought to that even though different in tone and hue from electric summer bloomers, there are plants that will bring wonderful color accents to your winter garden.

Witch Hazel is a shrub that has a late autumn to winter bloom. Yellow, gold, orange or red flowers arrive in the winter months. These flowers appear like mini firecrackers .What a way to bring in the festive season!

The Dogwood Arctic Fire is a new species. This smaller dogwood shrub is excellent for smaller gardens and residential landscapes. The long, bold red stems of this dwarf plant make for a marvelous show in the wintertime and the stems are stunning in seasonal arrangements and wreaths.

The Burning Bush is a different 1 with awesome scarlet red color. The deep dark red leaves pretty much glow and the corky wings on the twigs hold winter snow, producing a beautiful outline of the branch's structure.

Japanese pieris is an evergreen shrub that produces lily -of-the-valley like flowers. Bunches of the flowers hang in clusters, like bells ringing in the festive season. The flowers bloom red, white or pink and look gorgeous against the shrub's vibrant green leaves.

Heathers are outstanding sturdy shrubs. Heathers bloom in white, pink, purple and deep reds and offer myriad options for stellar color combinations.

Winter jasmine is a rambling, trainable shrub that blooms lovely yellow jasmine blossoms in late autumn through winter.

Speaking of trainable plants, think of creating a special winter space with hard scape style elements. Rustically developed arbors, gazebos and stone walls add an alluring style element to any winter landscape. You can then train your jasmine or other trainable shrubs to weave around them. This will add an fascinating dynamic in terms of color and height variance. Tall, ornamental grasses also function effectively to soften up and blend your style elements.

Bear in mind that in order to develop the ideal winter garden you should really start off putting your dream into action in the spring and summer months. With some foresight, the ideal combination of winter plants and a couple of design elements, everyone will want to walk through your winter wonderland!