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Planting for the Seasons
Each season brings it’s own distinct beauty to the landscape. Plan ahead to use color, form, and texture as seasonal highlights in your landscape. Color is and easy way to enhance your landscape throughout the season. Flowers put on the most obvious seasonal show. Put on the most obvious seasonal show. Spring just the beginning summer and fall boast blossoms too. In warmer climates a winter garden can be just as colourful as any spring display. Fruits are also natural decorations. Many berries ripen in fall and winter, and their clusters brighten snowy scenes. Seedpods and other fruit add color interest throughout the year. Don’t forget the leaves foliage color has a huge impact on landscape design. Variegated foliage with more than one color on each leaf ranges across the spectrum. You’ll find plants with leaves and needles ranging from white to yellow to nearly blue and endless shades in between. Form and texture come into their own when plants are dormant. Winter landscape is like a black and white photo, shape and tactile qualities dominate. Bark, trunks and branches take on sculptural qualities, especially when coated with ice and snow. Try combining evergreen and deciduous plants for a year-round show. The dark foliage and pleasing shapes of evergreen provides the perfect complement to color during warm seasons and shows off the form during leafless plants in winter. Evergreen shouldn’t just do background duty. Plant them for year round beauty