Eco-chic: Winter Bloom and Berry Landscapes
20.05.12
For many, winter signifies a three-month vacation but just because the temperature dips below 30 degrees, doesn’t mean you turn your back on a landscape. Believe it or not, there are plant as well as design options that can make a winter landscape come alive, be eco-chic.
Eye-pleasing winter landscapes first and foremost consist of an underlying year-round structural design. Still, while hard-scapes, which include structures such as arbors, fences, walls and even benches, add a lot to a landscape as well as carefully placed sculptures or garden ornaments, it is soft-scapes – plants – which create seasonal color and texture. So, instead of thinking of a winter landscape in terms of it being dormant or evergreen, plan and install a few plants that contrast with traditional options.
Michael McConkey, owner of Edible Landscaping located in Afton Virginia, says, “I’ve spent many years growing, grafting and testing hundreds
Source: Examiner.com