Evergreen shrubs can keep a gardener sane during the long winter months by continuing to provide winter interest.
Using evergreen shrubs are one of the main ways to create winter interest in the garden. And if you are like me, by the time February rolls around you are nearly desperate for some color!
Broadleaf evergreen shrubs can help provide that by using plants that not only have green leaves, but also plants with variegated and colored foliage as well.
At our new house here in Oklahoma there is only one scraggly evergreen shrub stuck along the side yard where it is starving for light. It looks leggy, weak, and in desperate need of a good pruning. The lack of color is driving me almost crazy.
Hopefully by this time next year I will have a much better landscape design in place and winter interest will abound!
There are so many plants on my "wish list" it is hard to decide on a final plan. After all I have the entire house to landscape from scratch! Quite an undertaking.
What are your favorite evergreen plants in your garden?
