How To Have A Colorful Garden All Year Round

They look good all year round.

How to have a colorful garden all year round. Plant them in masses or pair them with annuals bulbs and perennials. Evergreen shrubs and trees provide year-round color and create a backdrop for plants with multi-hued foliage. On gray days the yellow-splashed leaves look like little beams of sunlight.

Container gardening is an enjoyable way to fill your outdoor space with natural beauty and color. This keeps all your plants in view and lets the colors stand out together instead of being hidden. A good garden looks good all year round not just in spring or summer.

In a sunny garden low-growing Drift roses can be used as groundcovers or to help control erosion on slopes. Luckily perennials are amazing plants for pots all year round. Layering your perennials to allow for various blooming times in your garden is only one tip in creating a year-round landscape.

In fact some of our most important collections including crotons and bromeliads fall into the latter category. Layer your planting beds with taller plants in the back and shorter plants toward the front. Topiary looks great all year round Structural elements such as hedges sculptures large pots and topiary can form the bones of a garden.

Find inspiring ideas to create a dreamy productive garden for every season of the year. Explore whether you can apply the 8020 rule to your gardening so that you have year-round harvests and satisfaction without more effort. But choose carefully and youll find a range of plants that offer more than one season of interest not only flowers but autumn leaf colour and colourful berries too as well as an architectural form.

In summer giving background to the fullness of growth then in winter they come into their own as. Disease-resistant and practically carefree theyre winter hardy in Zones 4-11. You can also tuck colorful annuals around your beds to add splashes.