Every homeowner who has worked hard to create a beautifully landscaped backdrop for their home understands the value of using flowers and shrubs that provide a continuous color palate in every season.  This arrangement can be challenging to accomplish, but with careful planning and knowledge of the characteristics of many trees, shrubs and flowers, a beautiful four-season yard and landscape can be achieved.

After a long and bleak winter season, the homeowner wants nothing more than to see color around their home. There are several early blooming bushes and shrubs available to provide that color, and the forsythia is probably the earliest.  Lilac bushes are not far behind, and everyone looks forward to enjoying the sweet perfume of their flowers.  A consultation with the experts at Aardweg Landscaping will provide valuable landscaping ideas to help the homeowner create their own unique plan for spring flowering plants.

Before the spring flowering plants fade, the homeowner looks for summer plants to begin emerging. Peonies, roses and an abundance of early summer annuals help the home owner continue the color of their landscape display from early summer through the summer heat.  Once again advice can be found by contacting Aardweg Landscaping for landscaping ideas to choose the best flowers and shrubs for their landscape design.

Fall colors in a landscape can be provided by the leaves of trees and shrubs that turn beautiful shades of red, gold and orange. Some perennial flowers such as mums, hibiscus and cone flowers also reserve their most abundant display for autumn.  Some of these flowers are quite resistant to frost and continue to bloom a week or two after the first cold nights.  Winter color is harder to find, but the red dogwood against evergreen trees with a backdrop of snow creates a striking display.

For landscaping ideas or advice on which plants and flowers to plant when, and to have an Aardweg Landscaping expert design and install a year-round garden that’s best suited to your property, call 610-655-0703, or complete our web Contact form.

 

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