Winter Containers with Fresh Greens

Keep your outdoor winter containers full and beautiful by "planting" an arrangement of fresh greens and berries. Fresh greens make a good alternative to a potted tree or shrub. Trees and shrubs in above ground containers have only a 50% chance of survival in our zone 5A winters.

Pack your containers with a heavy soil mix and wet the soil well. Select an assortment of fresh greens and berries from Allisonville Nursery and your own garden. Make a fresh cut on the bottom of the stems and stick in a bucket of water for an hour. This allows the greens a chance to get hydrated before planting. "Plant" your greens by pushing the stems down into the soil in your container.

Great fresh greens for winter containers include fraser fir, noble fir, white pine, juniper, western red cedar, boxwood, winterberry holly, and coned cedar. Try adding stems of red twig dogwood, crabapples and hawthornes for a splash of color. Add a bright bow and you're ready for the holidays.

Depending on the weather, these arrangements will often last until the first spring thaw!

Allisonville Nursery
garden center, garden gifts, landscaping
11405 Allisonville Road
Fishers, IN 46038

Phone 317.849.4490
Fax 317.849.5948

We are not a mailorder nursery. Plants and products are
available for pick-up at our Fishers, Indiana location.

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