Winter Interest in New England

Bark, branches, and leaves to keep the garden beautiful

Today ’s photo come from Barbara Cain .

Hello and happy leaping ! I ’d care to share some photos of the plant life I have incorporated into my garden forwinter interest . Normally the New England wintertime is long and dull , so I have add plant that have interesting barque or leaves and that are showy this clip of year .

Japanese stewartia ( Stewartiapseudocamellia , Zones 5–8 ) has a spate run for it — showy white flowers in the summer and cherry declension colour , but the elaborately pattern and colored bark lasts throughout the year and may be the most beautiful lineament of thissmall Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .

Paperbark maple ( Acergriseum , Zones 4–8 ) has fond brown barque that peels away in delicate sheets .

Pines and other conifers make for winter interest as evergreen , of course , but the lacebark pine tree ( Pinusbungeana , Zones 5–8 ) also boasts colorful , patterned barque .

Dawn redwood ( Metasequoiaglyptostroboides , Zones 4–8 ) is an unusual conifer that is actuallydeciduous . The species was first describe from the fogy record , and 150 million years ago it was coarse across the northerly hemisphere , but it was thought to be nonextant until a small population was discovered in central China . Now it is wide grow in gardens , where we can enjoy its textured barque and unusually regulate trunks .

Winter interest does n’t just come trees . Sasaveitchii(Zones 6–9 ) is a bamboo with across-the-board green leaves that develop distinctive light tan margins during the winter . Like most bamboos , though , this plant life can spread aggressively , so plant with care .

Witch hazels are always one of the first plant to begin blooming in late wintertime and early spring . This is the variety‘Arnold Promise’(Hamamelis×intermedia‘Arnold Promise ’ , Zones 5–8 ) , which has profuse , fragrant , yellow blossoms .

Cornelian cherry dogwood ( Cornusmas , Zones 4–8 ) has clusters of lilliputian , bright yellow blooms early in the spring . The bloom will be followed by comestible red fruits later in the year .

Weeping katsura ( Cercidiphyllumjaponicum‘Pendula ’ , Zones 4–8 ) is always a beautiful tree , but with the leaves gone during the winter , you may enjoy the intricate pattern created by the weeping limbs .

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