Landscaping for Fall and Winter Interest
This morning I spent sometime at home before heading to the nursery waiting for my daughter to come and pick up the boys since we watched them last night. Once again, I was reminded why I love the fall. The colors of the American Highbush Cranberry are really showing their stuff right now. The leaves will fall in a few weeks, but we will be able to enjoy the red berries throughout the winter. Behind these bushes we have a large white pine. In the winter we get cardinals coming in and perching in the white pine. The reds of the birds and berries and the white snow make for many great winter memories. This is a reminder to all of us that we need to landscape for winter interest as well as just the growing season!
For those that follow our stories in the blog, know that we love the canoe country. A couple of years ago, we built a boulder garden at home - not a wall - but a garden where we have boulders like the canoe country, including several Ely greenstone boulders. We have planted various plants which are native to our area, but also some native to the canoe country. It is a garden that can be lived in - as is evidenced by my two little helpers here. For more information on this - give us a call or use our Contact Us page. We’ll be able to assist you in having a boulder garden at your home too!
