Last year you advised to plant things for winter interest. I planted abroviataes, euonymus sunshine ligstrum, nandina. Mungo pine, gold mop thread branch Cypress, lorepetlum, and boxwood. We usual have snow once a year and gone by noon. But I like green and these should give me winter interest. Love all your suggestions.
We have a Witch hazel for the Anna's hummingbirds that stay with us all year long. They like to feed on the flowers and we enjoy the yellow flowers in winter. Planted a Prairifire Crabapple two years ago and love the spring blooms and persistent fruit for the birds. I cut back the Arctic fire red dogwood this year and it didn't grow back long branches yet. Guess I'll have to wait until next year. The Northwinds switchgrass has beautiful color, seed heads, easy to grow and deer resistant. I cut it back in early winter. Great suggestions!
My witch hazel is the cultivar 'Sunburst'. Right now it has bright yellow leaves, so the fall color is also good. One cool thing about witch hazels is their flower heads are like crinkled little fingers that curl shut in the nighttime cold and relax open in the winter morning sun. My crabapple is 'Donald Wyman', which has better fall color then some other crabs. Its little berry-like fruits look so cool encased in the clear ice if we get freezing rain! My holly is 'Winter Red' which has abundant bright red berries but doesn't drop its leaves early enough for my liking and they obscure the fruit, so sometimes in fall I pluck it like a chicken! lol One year a flock of cedar waxwings came up in the spring and that little tree was just absolutely crawling with birds. They ate every berry. Astonishing. Alfred Hitchcock should have filmed it.
THANKS FOR THIS! I need ideas for my yard. I always think of evergreens, but forget about other trees and shrubs. Loved this video. Also... thanks for putting the full names and zones up on the screen. I need help with the spelling of the names! 😆 lol 18:13
I love Autumn Joy Sedum! Well behaved plants. We had a birch once and I do like them, but they can get birch borer. And I don’t know if it was the leaves or bugs they might attract, but they had an off smell, Red twig I had and some can be a handful. Trying yellow twig at the moment. The arbs and other conifers definitely need to have heavy snow removed especially with warmer winter our snows are anything but light and fluffy. Last year it bent the young arbs over and it took a bit to straighten out. Will definitely look at a few you mentioned. I think Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick would be nice also. Left mine at last house and think they took it out 😭 some people have no taste. Should have took it with me. Thanks for your info on what you’ve tried.
Thank you for your suggestions! I'm really getting hooked on panicle hydrangeas, now I have even more reasons to love them! I gotta ask though, why did you not include Beautyberry? I'm thinking of getting the PW Pear Glam for the 'centerpiece' to a new bed right outside my living room window. Have you just not grown it yet yourself? Is there something I should know about it? Did it get disqualified for any reason? I remember you used it in a client's garden design earlier this summer. I"m hesitant to use winterberry as a substitute because of the toxicity and I have very young kiddos...
They grow here, but for us I do not think they are not pretty through the winter. I have to cut mine back to the ground every year. I love them though.
Thank you for responding! I was under the impression that the purple berries stayed on the plant all winter. So glad to learn ahead of time that they don't, 🤪 oh well. I will keep rethinking my design!
Michelle, I love the witch hazel. I saw one blooming in winter maybe March but the flowers looked more orange. I want that one and I can’t seem to find its name. Can you tell us if you’re familiar with the orange one?
Last year you advised to plant things for winter interest. I planted abroviataes, euonymus sunshine ligstrum, nandina. Mungo pine, gold mop thread branch Cypress, lorepetlum, and boxwood. We usual have snow once a year and gone by noon. But I like green and these should give me winter interest. Love all your suggestions.
I love boxwoods too, Michelle. I also strongbox and Sky pencil Holly. Love that yellow hellebore.
I tried to grow the sky pencill holly a few years ago....not happening here....one hard winter and it took them out.
@@gardeningTLC that’s one that I have in a protected area. My nieces died to the ground last year during the cold spell but came back from the ground.
Hi Michelle. Great info.on so many sturdy,reliable varieties. Happy Fall 🌻
Thank you! You too!
Thanks great video ! Love all your suggestions, I have some of those .
Hi Michelle 👋 Great choices. Thank you for sharing. 😊
We have a Witch hazel for the Anna's hummingbirds that stay with us all year long. They like to feed on the flowers and we enjoy the yellow flowers in winter. Planted a Prairifire Crabapple two years ago and love the spring blooms and persistent fruit for the birds. I cut back the Arctic fire red dogwood this year and it didn't grow back long branches yet. Guess I'll have to wait until next year. The Northwinds switchgrass has beautiful color, seed heads,
easy to grow and deer resistant. I cut it back in early winter. Great suggestions!
Perfect for this time of year! I need to commit to a weeping conifer. It’s soooo perfect for winter
It really is!
Thanks for sharing this your always give me great ideals Joanne Ohio
You are so welcome!
Beautiful plants and trees!!
TY for this!
I used to have a witch hazel at my old house and loved it. I need to get another one.😊
I think I am going to get one for the house too....just do not know of I have a good place to site it where I can see it.
My witch hazel is the cultivar 'Sunburst'. Right now it has bright yellow leaves, so the fall color is also good. One cool thing about witch hazels is their flower heads are like crinkled little fingers that curl shut in the nighttime cold and relax open in the winter morning sun.
My crabapple is 'Donald Wyman', which has better fall color then some other crabs. Its little berry-like fruits look so cool encased in the clear ice if we get freezing rain!
My holly is 'Winter Red' which has abundant bright red berries but doesn't drop its leaves early enough for my liking and they obscure the fruit, so sometimes in fall I pluck it like a chicken! lol One year a flock of cedar waxwings came up in the spring and that little tree was just absolutely crawling with birds. They ate every berry. Astonishing. Alfred Hitchcock should have filmed it.
Lol
THANKS FOR THIS! I need ideas for my yard. I always think of evergreens, but forget about other trees and shrubs. Loved this video. Also... thanks for putting the full names and zones up on the screen. I need help with the spelling of the names! 😆 lol 18:13
I love Autumn Joy Sedum! Well behaved plants. We had a birch once and I do like them, but they can get birch borer. And I don’t know if it was the leaves or bugs they might attract, but they had an off smell,
Red twig I had and some can be a handful. Trying yellow twig at the moment. The arbs and other conifers definitely need to have heavy snow removed especially with warmer winter our snows are anything but light and fluffy. Last year it bent the young arbs over and it took a bit to straighten out.
Will definitely look at a few you mentioned. I think Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick would be nice also. Left mine at last house and think they took it out 😭 some people have no taste. Should have took it with me.
Thanks for your info on what you’ve tried.
80 degrees here in Northeast Illinois. I love the Hellebores
One more day...then cooler weather sets in.
Hellebores…I’ve divided mine. They are just fine. I’m in GA zone 8a so maybe they are better to divide in milder climates.
Maybe. I have tried to divide twice now. And 1/2 died and 1/2 lived.
Michelle, love the switch grass Christmas trees. The green veggie tower early in this video, do you recommend it? Thanks.
Yes
Can you believe I have a hellebore that has white flowers, right now, late Oct., zone 5b!!!
Wow
Thank you for your suggestions! I'm really getting hooked on panicle hydrangeas, now I have even more reasons to love them!
I gotta ask though, why did you not include Beautyberry? I'm thinking of getting the PW Pear Glam for the 'centerpiece' to a new bed right outside my living room window. Have you just not grown it yet yourself? Is there something I should know about it? Did it get disqualified for any reason? I remember you used it in a client's garden design earlier this summer. I"m hesitant to use winterberry as a substitute because of the toxicity and I have very young kiddos...
They grow here, but for us I do not think they are not pretty through the winter. I have to cut mine back to the ground every year. I love them though.
Thank you for responding! I was under the impression that the purple berries stayed on the plant all winter. So glad to learn ahead of time that they don't, 🤪 oh well. I will keep rethinking my design!
Michelle, I love the witch hazel. I saw one blooming in winter maybe March but the flowers looked more orange. I want that one and I can’t seem to find its name. Can you tell us if you’re familiar with the orange one?
Oh. I am not. I do not know.
I have one called ‘Diane’ it is orange with a little red, and blooms in February in NE Ohio.
@@EmeraldPawYT thanks I think that’s what it is.
Nice new hairdo!
Thanks! 😁
I love hellebores and sedum.
Winter Berries. How do you tell a male from a female plant? Are they the same as Holly bushes?
They are an American Holly and they loose their leaves. I think I said all that. The tag will say if it is male or female when you buy them.