Winter Textures, Improving your ground game

If Vinca is your key groundcover throughout your gardens, time for an upgrade! I snapped some shots of a client’s December garden and noticed that even in the gray-covered skies and slight frost of winter, the new garden plantings of Heuchera richardsonii, Carex flacca and Hakonechloa macra Aureola offer *some* respite and interest – though the height of their beauty is months away.

So toss the Vinca and incorporated perennials, sedges, grasses and shrubs into your new year’s garden goal.

Carex Flacca and Heuchera bumping up a winter garden scene.

Hakonechloa, Carex and Heuchera in winter's view.

The standard Vinca view in December, doing little to inspire this garden view.