Garden Plants with Winter Interest

A winter landscape has a beauty all its own.

Plant features like winter blooms,

bright berries, colorful or textured foliage, and unusual bark can add a welcome element to your garden. As you enter 2022 and find yourself browsing gardening catalogs during these cold winter days, consider some of the eight shrubs listed below. If you add them to your garden this spring, you will have a beautiful display of colors and textures with eye-catching features to admire in your

winter landscape next year!

Des Plaines Garden Club Horticulture Talk

December 9, 2021 ~ Presented By Karen Pacey

Blue Holly

Winterberry

Name: Ilex × meserveae

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade in moist, well drained soil

Size: 10 – 15 feet tall

Zones: 4-9

Winterberry

Name: Ilex verticillata

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and moist, acidic soil

Size: To 12 feet tall

Zones: 3–9

Witch Hazel

Winterberry

Witch Hazel

Name: Hamamelis virginiana

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil

Size: Up to 20 feet tall

Zones: 3–8

Red Twig Dogwood

Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick

Name: Cornus sericea

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade

Size: Up to 9 feet tall

Zones: 3–7

Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick

Name: Corylusavellana 'Contorta'

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade in well drained soil

Size: Up to 10 feet tall

Zones: 4–8

Japanese False Cypress

Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick

Japanese False Cypress

Name: Chamaecyparis pisifera

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil

Size: Up to 70 feet high

Zones: 4–8

Snowberry

Dwarf Arborvitae

Japanese False Cypress

Name: Symphoricarpos albus

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and well-drained soil

Size: To 6 feet tall

Zones: 3-7

Dwarf Arborvitae

Name: Thuja occidentalis

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil

Size: Up to 7 feet

Zones: 3–7

Pampas Grass

Dwarf Arborvitae

Name: Cortaderia selloana

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade

in well-drained soil

Size: 5 to 7 feet tall

Zones: 5–7