August Home-Garden
Garden GateWindow Box Designs:

Winter Window
Garden


This winter garden makes use of broadleaf- and needled-evergreen shrubs and cool-season annuals. Such a planting will work best in warmer climates where soil doesn't freeze. A layer of mulch can help insulate roots. (Except for the skimmia, the shrubs are hardy to zone 4.)

Plant List
Code Plant Name No. to Buy
A Flowering kale Brassica oleracea acephala 'Northern Lights' 3
B Pink Scotch heather Calluna vulgaris 'Alexandra' 3
C White Scotch heather C. vulgaris 'Silver Knight' 5
D White English ivy Hedera helix 'Eva' 3
E Pink English ivy H. helix 'Tricolor' 2
F Dwarf juniper Juniperus communis compressa 2
G Coast leucothoe Leucothoe axillaris 'Scarletta' 1
H Japanese pieris Pieris japonica 'Variegata' 3
I Flowering kale Brassica oleracea acephala 'Northern Lights' 3
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