Check out these winter landscaping ideas to add color, texture, and interest to your yard or garden.
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Use Evergreens
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Evergreens truly live up to their name.
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With tough, wavy leaves or needles, evergreens have evolved over millennia to adapt to the harshest conditions.
Winter is the perfect time to focus on installing or enjoying any of thesehardscaping ideas.
Many types of synthetic grass look more like real grass than ever.
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Mulch insulates roots against freezing temperatures and holds in moisture.
Other shrubs, likered twig dogwood, add delightful crimson slashes to a neutral winter landscape.
Long grasses likeChinese silver grassoverwinter quite attractively.
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Sedge or Carex plants are perennials that remain unfazed throughout the winter due to their tough rhizome root systems.
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In spring, you might plant planting trees, shrubs, and perennials, and the conditions are favorable.
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In fall, with milder weather, the roots of new plants can take hold.
It’s also a good time to establish new grass.
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