Plants with Four-Season Interest

Christie’s favorites with 12-month appeal

Conifers do n’t have to be the only plant you bank on for year - round sake in your garden . The follow are a few plant that look great in every season thanks to their color , grain , and/or structure .

‘Ogon’ sweet flag

Name : Acorus gramineus‘Ogon ’

Zones:5–9

Size:6 to 12 inches tall and across-the-board

Conditions : Full sunshine to partial shade ; damp stain

Native range : Asia

The bright yellow straplike foliage stays lawful to colorize and form all winter long .

‘Angelina’ sedum

Name : Sedum rupestre‘Angelina ’

Zones:5–8

Size:4 to 6 inches tall and 1 to 2 human foot wide

Conditions : Full sun ; well - run out soil

Native kitchen stove : Europe

This is a workhorse ground masking that is hopeful yellowish during the growing season and can take on some apricot hues in winter .

‘Goshiki’ false holly

Name : Osmanthus heterophyllus‘Goshiki ’

Zones:6–9

Size:5 to 8 feet tall and wide

condition : Full sun to partial tincture ; well - drain soil

Native range : Japan

An evergreen midget shrub with yellow - and - green motley leafage , ‘ Goshiki ’ has pointy holly leaves that offer great texture year - pear-shaped .

Japanese clethra

Name : Clethra barbinervis

Size:10 to 20 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet all-embracing

weather condition : Full Lord’s Day to fond shade ; moist , well - drained soil

plants with 4 season interest

Photo: Michelle Gervais

This multitrunk small tree diagram has mottled and pare bark , draping livid summer flowers , and white-livered dusk color .

‘Ryusen’ Japanese maple

Name : Acer palmatum‘Ryusen ’ syn . ‘ Ryu sei ’ )

Size:4 substructure improbable and 8 foot wide

Conditions : fond shade ; moist , well - drained soil

Ogon sweet flag

Photo: Michelle Gervais

A strongly weeping green leaved maple , this tree has grand form in wintertime and stunning greenish - hue shank .

‘Beni hime’ Japanese maple

Name : Acer palmatum‘Beni hime ’

Size:4 feet tall and 6 feet wide

A nanus multifariousness with a mounded frame , this maple has fabulous scarlet , pinkish , and apricot outpouring growth ; green leave with red edges in summer ; multiple colors in downslope ; and a light bluish barque in wintertime .

Angelina sedum

Photo: Michelle Gervais

Christie Dustman has been a landscape intriguer for over 20 old age . She gardens in Hyde Park , Massachusetts .

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