Winter can be bleak, so to brighten the mood it’s important to try to inject a little more color in your landscape. With a little strategic planning, your landscaping contractor can help your landscape bloom into a colorful oasis throughout the year. Here’s a guide to finding year-round color at a garden nursery near me in Hudson Valley, NY.
As you come up with the perfect combination of foliage for your landscape, consider the variances in temperature and weather as plants show off their best during different seasons and this strategy will always keep your landscape filled with color. Depending on your preferences, it may be the best choice to keep to a single color scheme and change the textures according to the seasons. Or, you might prefer a landscape with a kaleidoscopic effect of changing colors that flow with the seasons.
Flowers
Certainly, the most popular and visually striking way to add color to your landscape is with gorgeous perennials and annual flowers. Check with a nursery advisor for the best options in rotating seasonal color for sunny and shady spots.
Berries
Berries grow on many trees and shrubs and act as an important food source for local wildlife. The brilliant colors of various berry bushes add a vibrancy to any drab winter landscape and can make things positively dreamy.
Ornamental Grasses
Often overlooked in landscaping, ornamental grasses provide stunning beauty through their colors and textures. When paired with various shrubs and trees or on their own as a focal point, they offer a textural softness that can enhance any landscape.
Evergreens
In contrast to deciduous trees that show their magnificent colors in fall, evergreen trees and shrubs are positively vivacious during the colder months. There are many species with different foliage that show a wide variety of different hues of blues, yellows, and greens. To embolden visual aesthetics, blend the sizes and textures available.
Foliage
Autumn is the season of color in the foliage. The waves of warm hues draw attention and delight the eye. It’s the mark of the end of summer, the growing season, and it’s the final burst of life before the ecosystem slows down for the year. By choosing from the wide selection of ornamental trees, you can amplify the visual aesthetics of your landscape both in the dramatic fall color changes as well as the wild budding of spring. Deciduous trees with leaves of different colors can offer an endlessly fascinating visual contrast – think beeches and lindens, cherry and crabapple trees.
Trunk & Bark
Once a deciduous tree has undergone its seasonal changes, the texture of its core becomes visible and apparent and it’s not to be underappreciated. The wonderful patterns of the maple, dogwood, and ironwood, for instance, combine to form a fascinating landscape.
Ground Cover
As the name implies, these shrubs act as low-lying plants that help protect the soil from erosion and contribute to adding nutrients and moisture of soil. Many of these shrubs blossom in show-stopping pinks, whites, and reds that will add plenty of color during the growing season, and remain green in winter.
Professional Help
An expert from your local nursery will happily be your guide on finding the best mix of plants for a landscape that will offer beauty all year long. Brightening the drab grays and whites of winter, celebrating the lush greens of spring, enjoying the riot of color of summer and fall, your landscape will be graced by beautiful flowers across the color spectrum. Our experts will help you find stunning native plants that add beauty as well as simplifying maintenance.
