Does your garden currently lack a touch of winter interest throughout the colder months?
Adding structure, colour and interest to your garden scene, winter interest is a significant and important element of any landscape design. A time of year that is traditionally much colder and darker, plants are an important component of your garden, awakening your outdoor spaces with bursts of beautiful fragrances and colours. With leaves that change throughout the seasons to magical garden berries, discover a selection of glorious trees and shrubs that our planting designer’s handpick to include within our bespoke planting schemes.
Hamamelis
Hamamelis, otherwise known as Witch hazel, is a striking shrub or small tree that is a wonderful plant for dotting winter interest throughout your gardenscape. Flourishing vibrant blooms with shades of butterscotch, pumpkin orange and crimson, witch hazel is a great shrub for adding a pop of colour throughout your landscape.
Jasminum nudiflorum
Better known as winter jasmine, Jasminum nudiflorum is a charming deciduous shrub that blooms a beautiful yellow display of golden flowers in winter and again in spring. Best planted in particularly sunny spaces, this shrub is a valuable planting addition in our winter planting schemes, as it is able to brighten a variety of outdoor spaces and areas of all different shapes and sizes.
Daphne odora
Winter daphne, is a charming evergreen shrub that guarantees to add texture, colour and fragrance to your gardenscape. Brightening your winter garden, Daphne odora flourishes a blend of blush-pink and creamy blooms, flowering in the winter and again in spring. A worshipper of the sun, this beautiful evergreen is a great way to enhance your winter landscape.
Ilex aquifolium
A beautiful evergreen shrub or tree, Holly is a delightful shrub to have planted throughout the garden. Providing wildlife with a glorious sheltered spot for hibernation during the harsher, colder months, holly is a magical plant that completes your winter garden beautifully.
Cornus
Better known as dogwood, Cornus is a bright and fiery deciduous shrub. Bringing a statement plant to your beds and borders, dogwood is a gorgeous plant for adding year-round structure and colour to your garden. Illuminating the garden, dogwood flourishes a beautiful ever-changing palette that shifts from shades of bright red and orange to give your garden a wonderful spot of winter cheer.
Betula utilis
Himalayan birch or Betula utilis is fantastic tree that our planting designers frequently include within our planting schemes and greater garden designs. A deciduous tree that sheds it’s bark to reveal shades of ivory, chestnut and even dusky pink, this tree is incredibly valuable for adding unusual shades of colour and striking textures to the garden throughout the seasons.
Acer Griseum
The paperbark maple, otherwise known as Acer Griseum is a beautiful deciduous tree that also boasts an eye-catching and unique bark that peels to reveal wonderful shades of brown and caramel. Shifting from shades of fiery red to tawny hues, this tree is even a fantastic addition to the autumn garden, beautifully demonstrating the transition of the seasons.
Interested in bringing your winter landscape to life with glorious textures and natural structures? Talk to our soft landscaping team today to find out more about how they could help.
