The 5-Minute Fix for a Drab Landscape…
When everything is draped in drab brown
The grass has never been browner and you might be hard pressed to find something not drab in your landscape. There is a way…to see past all that brown. Just like adding a splash of color with a throw blanket, this one thing will brighten the dull.
There are certain times of day for whatever reason that my yard (whether front or back) is dull. I call it dead time. But it never lasts long. In a matter of seconds it can all change. A bird lands to survey the landscape, or a breeze will blow. The trees appear lifeless, but in truth, the roots are having a party down below.
If you plant native plants that provide for all seasons, your yard will never be dull. For example: a variety of nectar-producing flowers, berry-bearing shrubs, and pines or cedars for winter hiding spots and shelter. And you leave those spent flowers and leaves were they lay. Very important!
A 5-minute walk through a native plant garden will having you seeing far beyond the brown. That’s your fix.
Maybe you will spot a wooly bear caterpillar or hear a wren belting out a tune. Perhaps a walnut-carrying squirrel will gallop past.
Inside all that brown there is life. It is all there. Under a brown blanket of leaves.
Favorite Berry-Producing Shrubs:
Ilex verticillata — Winterberry Holly (don’t forget to buy 2 because you need both a male and female plant to produce berries)
Juniperus virginiana — Eastern red cedar
Viburnum trilobum — Cranberry bush viburnum
Cornus florida — flowering dogwood
Photos included in the journal linked below.
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