Sprague’s Nursery and Garden Center highlights shrubs and trees that keep gardens appealing through every season.
BANGOR, Maine — Making your gardening interesting and beautiful all year long is a challenge. Especially the winter months. Melissa Higgins with Sprague’s Nursery and Garden Center has some great suggestions.
“So a lot of people come to the garden center and they’re looking for plants that bloom all summer long,” Higgins said. “So, trying to choose plants that have maybe flowers in the spring, fall foliage. Things to extend your season. Gives you kind of a bigger bang for your buck.”
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Melissa’s suggestions:
Shasta Viburnum – has great springtime flowers, fall foliage is beautiful, lovely berries, and attracts birds.
Weigela – stunning flowers, a lot of different variations with different bloom colors and leaf texture, including variegation. typically blooms twice a season and is a great hummingbird plant.
Fall Cypress – adds great winter-time structure, grows quite large, a vibrant green and chartreuse color.
Camperdown Elm – as it matures, it will grow into an umbrella shape. Beautiful in the winter, especially if lit from underneath.
River Birch – golden bark, upright growth, also beautiful if lit from underneath.
Higgins can’t emphasize enough how beautiful ornamental grasses are with snow, plus the birds enjoy the seed heads.
Higgins says, obviously, all the evergreens that have berries like juniper and mugo pine will add warmth to the landscape during the winter months.
She also warns to place your plants and shrubs beyond the drip hedge so they don’t get damaged by ice and snow.
“We want our gardeners to be successful, so we try to choose hardy plants,” Higgins affirmed.
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