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Transcript: Cool Season Color
Just because the weather cools off in winter is no reason to give up on landscape color. In fact, we have many wonderful options for beautifying your landscape over the winter season.Everyone’s familiar with pansies; we’ve used them for years. The pansies actually have a smaller cousin: the viola and Johnny Jump-ups. These violas are really attractive and come in many different nice shades that look well in containers where you can view the intricate flowers up close.
Dianthus is another great color plant. Not only does it provide large splashes of red, pink, and lavender colors in the landscape over the winter, but it continues to bloom into the spring and even into the summer with some of our new heat-tolerant types.
For container color, I like lobelia and alyssum. I like to use them spilling over the side of a container as a backdrop to the taller plants in the center.
And then there’s nasturtium. Nasturtium is a really cold-hearty plant that has beautiful orange booms. And some variegated foliage that has splashes of green and yellow.
Pot marigold, or calendula, is another great winter color plant for your landscape.
And then the heartiest of them all: the ornamental kales and cabbages. These can take very bitter cold weather and the kales will even send up bloom stalks in the spring to give you some attractive foliage and flowers rising above the foliage in shades of yellow.
With your commonsense tip for cool season color, I’m Skip Richter.
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