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Types of Evergreen Trees

To add interest to your winter landscape

Different types of evergreen trees with great winter foliage can be the backbone to your garden during December, January, February, and March especially here in the Mid-South.

Check them out at your local garden center. I think you will be surprised at the amazing array of shapes and shades of green that you can have with evergreens.

I love to use them in my Christmas decorations because they generally don't dry out and drop needles like cedar trees do. The many textures add a wonderful dimension to your arrangements.

In the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of The American Gardener, author Carole Ottesen calls gardens designed to look great from inside your home looking out a window as "look-into" gardens.

I love that term.

It's what we have been doing for years with our planters here at our home.

Our main floor looks out into the treetops, so adding fun plants like evergreen trees and tulips in our deck pots helps to add interest as we look out.

See how we use tulips in our planters for a fun spring planting.

Evergreens also make wonderful "sculptures" when placed in a prominent place in your garden.

Different evergreens can also add "rooms" to different areas of your garden as seen in this photo of our garden.

• Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
• Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) 'Burkii'
• Nellie Stevens holly (Ilex cornuta 'Nellie R. Stevens')
• American holly (Ilex opaca)
• Foster holly (Ilex attenuata 'Fosteri'
• Deodar cedar (Cedrus Deodara)
• Blue atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica)
• Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)
• Leyland cyprus ( Cuprocyparis leylandii)
• Cryptomeria (Cryptomeria japonica)

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