1. Gold Moss Sedum
Name:Sedum acreand cvs.
USDA Hardiness Zones:3 to 8
sizing : Up to 3 inch grandiloquent , go around indefinitely
status : Full sun to light shade ; well - drained dirt
When snow is scatty in wintertime , this repeated flesh a dark green mantle over an otherwise - exanimate layer . It turn shiny immature in tender temperatures and blossoms into a carpet of yellow in summer . gilt moss sedum forms a ruglike matting over pit , which you may annul and cut with scissors . knock off a patch on top of the soil in another cheery spot in your garden and off it goes .
2. Snow Fountains®Weeping Cherry
Name:Prunus‘Snofozam’
Zones:5 to 8
sizing : Up to 18 feet tall and 12 human foot wide , depending on how you cut it
Conditions : Full sun ; moist , well - drained soil
In former spring , Snow Fountains ® weeping cherry looks like something a bride could hold out ; in summertime , the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree looks more like a green Rastafarian . Its fall color starts out yellow and turns vibrant orange . When the coke fall , it looks just like it does when it blossoms in spring . New growth hit out where you clip , so selectively remove the branches at varying heights to keep a natural cascading shape . Some people trim it the way my mama used to cut down my bangs ; do n’t torture it this room , or you ’ll create a giant mushroom-shaped cloud .
3. Creeping Woolly Thyme
Name:Thymus pseudolanuginosus
Zones:5 to 9
condition : Full sun to swooning spectre ; lean , well - drained filth
This flabby , dusty aristocratic - green ground blanket looks as if it were meld and pelt over the garden . While creeping woolly thyme barely changes with the season — beyond its scatter of pink bloom in summer — it performs some neat illusion . In winter , it blushes slimly purple and covers the garden like a dusting of snow . On dewy mornings in spring , summertime , and evenfall , water droplet stay in high spirits on the plant life ’s tiny tomentum , and it shimmer . As if the grain were n’t enough of a reward , the scent of thyme fills the aura when the plant is crushed . witching .
4. ‘Prairiefire’ Flowering Crabapple
Name:Malus‘Prairiefire’
sizing : Up to 20 feet grandiloquent and wide
Conditions : Full sun ; moist , humus - copious , well - drain territory
mess of tree can win a beauty pageantry in springtime , and this deep pink blossoming crab apple is no exception . But this bronze - foliaged stunner turn head in summertime , too , with bright red unexampled growth . The leaves stick around , unlike those of some crabapple , because ‘ Prairiefire ’ is immune to scab and firing blight . As the foliage brightens to shades of Au in fall , marble - size , merlot - colored Chuck Berry appear ; they are , manifestly , not as delicious as they are beautiful ( bird do n’t prefer them ) , so the berries remain while the snow fall .
Jan Meissner is a garden designer who tends her honor - winning garden in Avon , Ohio .
photo : ( # 1 and # 2 ) , Jan Meissner ; ( # 3 ) , Nancy J. Ondra ; ( # 4 ) , www.millettephotomedia.com
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