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Welcome to Growing Wisdom and today I am going to give you a little tip. It is a tip to always be thinking about winter and you might think why we want to think about winter. I am watching this at spring, summer, or fall. It might not be the winter but you should think about winter as you are planting your garden.
Here we are the leaves are coming down and why I told you think about winters because six months of the year for many of us the leaves are bare so you want to be putting plants in your garden that stay green and give you some winter interest.
So, there are plants whose stems have color to them and there are plants whose leaves stay green all winter. We are going to focus on the plants that stay green all winter something like a Rhododendron, you have also got a Pieris which also look terrific but I want to walk you over to a plant that I basically met, I was introduced to this plant recently and the reason why I am so excited about this particular plant is that it has this great texture to it. This is a Himalayan pine and it is a Pinus, it is a variety of Pinus it is a Zabrina or the common name called Himalayan pine and what is so wonderful about this is its weeping texture.
It really is dramatic and you can picture the snow fall on this in just a few months, snow will be all over this and it will look terrific and that is kind of the idea with all of the plants that you put in the garden that stay green all winter. You want to think about how they will look with snow or without snow but mostly how are they going to look when nothing else is growing around them.
They want to make you feel wonderful because there is so much green whether it is boxwood, whether it is a miniature spruce, whether it is a Chamaecyparis, no matter what it is it adds life in a time of the year when there is not much life at all.
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