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Your garden looks great in summer, fall and spring,but bare in winter.
The best gardens have a framework of evergreen architectural plants that look good all year, but especially in the bleak midwinter period.
Conifers are the obvious choice, but other great hardy shrubs that add maturity are:
Mahonia "Charity", Yucca filamentosa,Skimmia japonica"Rubella",Eleagnus pungens"Maculata",Prunus luscitanica,Prunus "Otto lukyen" Viburnum tinus, Fatsia japonica ,Arunindaria and Aucuba japonica "Crotonifolia"
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