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Landscape Design Ideas with Evergreen Trees and Shrubs - Groups

A bed of mixed dwarf evergreen trees and shrubs includes a weeping Tsuga Pendula, trimmed spiral Alberta Spruces, Emerald Green cedar, Hetz Midget and Holmstrup Cedars, Picea Marina Nana, Chamacyparis Pygmea, Chamacyparis Minima, and Picea Orientalis Nana "Bergman's Gem". Landscaping designed with evergreen trees and shrubs makes a lot of sense. You get year round color and substance when using evergreen trees and shrubs in your landscape designs.

Holmstrup Cedars line two sides of the Daylily garden with Emerald green cedar serving as corner posts. Cedars or Thuya is one of the best evergreen trees to use as a hedge. The dark green cedar color is a perfect backdrop for the bright daylilies as well as the Royal Star Magnolias shown in bloom.

Thuya Occidentalis Holmstrupi makes a great compact hedge. Shown here is the other side of the same evergreen hedge as above serving also as a back ground planting for another daylily bed. In the immmediate fore ground is a Robusta Green Juniper another great evergreen tree. Robusta can grow to 25 foot or more.

In the center of this bed is a unique evergreen tree a Japanese Black Pine called Mini Mounds. A Golden Motherlode Juniper is in the forground with the tall growing Hetz Juniper used as a back drop. To the far left is another Robusta Green Juniper with its eclectic look. Using these dwarf and unique evergreen trees in the landscape design will add solid defined character to your gardens.

Winter color on the Tiny Tim Cedars casts a beautiful bronze glow. Two Pyramidal Cedars stand as guard pillars at the garden entrance. Thuya Tiny Tim hedge showing off its personality even after a snow fall. Displayed here with a lawn chair.

A larger hedge of Techney Cedars makes a very sturdy fence and a great background for more dwarf evergreen trees and shrubs. This Techny Cedar hedge is trimmed to a knife edge at 8 ft height which sheds snow easily in winter. The Gentch White Hemlock benefits from a trim responding with very white growth in summer. In the center of the bed are two Thuya Tiny Tim with a rare dwarf evergreen Everitts Golden Hemlock tree in the back.

Glorious Fall color on these evergreens pictured to the left. A blue Montgomery Spruce with a Chamaecyparis "Bright Gold"in front, and a miniature Jeddeloh Hemlock to the left   One of the nicest evergreen trees used in our garden is a long curved hedge of Chamaecyparis P.filifera Aura Nana. Shown above.

This is same evergreen bed as above but with spring color on Sanders blue Alberta Spruce. Also on the small leaf Rhododendron Aglo. Dwarf evergreens Balsami Nana and Montgomery Spruce are near new growth opening. Chamaecyparis Filifera Bright Gold shines in the front . Rhododendrons have evergreen foliage and are a perfect mix with conifers in your landscape designs.

This center bed by the sand pond contains larger evergreen trees like Norway and Morheim Spruce, Pyramidal Cedar and a Crippsi Chamaecyparis. Directly behind the pond is a Gold Cone Juniper and Left of the sand pond is a horizontal grower blue Prostrata Spruce with an older miniature evergreen Little Gem Spruce. To the immediate right is a very slow growing dwarf Scotch Pine called Viridis.

Trimmed Hetz Junipers make wonderful whimsy-ish topiarys. In center of this bed to the right is a Little Gem Spruce on a 36 inch standard now displaying a round form in its older age, a rare aqua blue Saint Mary's Broom hugs the ground making for a neat no trim evergreen specimen. The totally non disciplined Robusta Green is on the corner. To the left, a dwarf evergreen spruce tree called Picea Orientalis Bergmans Gem which has a growth rate of two to three inches per year. Landscape Design Ideas   Robusta Green Juniper grows over a wide range of climates.

Evergreen trees and shrubs are fantastic addtions to any garden year round but they really strut their stuff in winter !  Evergreen trees and shrubs are a great addition to your home landscape. Stretch your imagination with ideas for your own landscape designs using lots of evergreens and dwarf conifers.

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