Test Garden Tip: Choose cultivars that mature at an appropriate size for your yard. Compact Austrian pine only reaches about 15 feet tall and 8 feet wide, for example. And fernspray false cypress grows 10 feet tall and 4 feet wide. Both will give you privacy without taking up your entire yard.
Learn about some of our favorite evergreens.
Test Garden Tip: To add interest, consider evergreens in various colors. Combining the blue-green pine, silvery-blue spruce, and dark green arborvitae creates another layer of attractiveness.
Check out more beautiful, easy-to-grow groundcovers.
Test Garden Tip: Stone is a common choice because it’s maintenance-free and fits well with a wide variety of landscaping styles. Select stone native to your area for a more natural look. Or add extra appeal by including various types of stones. Test Garden Tip: Great shrubs for a multiseason show include ninebark, viburnum, fothergilla, and reblooming hydrangeas.
Learn more about pagoda dogwood. Learn more about ninebarks. Learn more about viburnums. Learn more about fothergilla. Learn more about hydrangeas.
Get more water garden ideas here.
See some of our favorite ornamental grasses.
Test Garden Tip: Other plants with stunning dark foliage include Diablo ninebark, purple-leaf filbert, ‘Velvet Cloak’ smoke bush, and ‘Black Lace’ elderberry.
Learn about more shrubs with colorful foliage.
Test Garden Tip: Ornaments such as this can also act as hose guides – place them at the edge of your border to keep your watering hose from crushing plants as you pull it around corners.
Learn more about beautyberry.
Get ideas for making great fall containers here!
