Choosing the right shrubs can enhance the front yard landscaping and curb appeal, which often requested by our landscape design clients in Minneapolis, MN. In this blog, we focus on the shrubs that provide beautiful color in the Winter landscape in Minneapolis – St. Paul, the Twin Cities area in Minnesota.
The shrubs that create aesthetic color in the Winter Minneapolis landscape include:
- Redosier dogwood
- Tatarian dogwood
- Black chokeberry
- Serviceberry, or juneberry
- Winterberry
Particularly, Redosioer dogwood is a Minnesota native shrub with colorful red winter bark that provides great winter landscape. As a Minnesota landscape plant, the underlying rosy hue of redosier dogwood branches provides bright landscape color through even the most severe Minneapolis Minnesota winter. The extensive root system of the redosier dogwood tolerates poorly drained soil, and can be useful for erosion control along shorelines and in rain gardens. Redosier dogwood is also used in planting for wildlife since its white berries appeal birds and mammals.
For more information about Minnesota Winter shrubs, it’s highly recommended to talk to one of your Minneapolis landscape architects who knows about soil erosion systems and wildlife ecosystems. Natural Environments Corporation, one of the largest Minneapolis landscaping companies, has both landscape designers and landscape architects. Feel free to contact us.
