Evergreen Plants That'll Add Year-Round Color to Your Landscape

Evergreen plants are an excellent way to add year-round color, structure, and visual interest to your landscape in Nebraska or Iowa. Boxwoods are a popular option, with their dense greenery that can be shaped to your desired form. Yews offer rich green foliage and versatile planting options, while Taylor Juniper plants add a striking vertical interest to landscapes. These evergreen plants can help you create a balanced landscape that remains attractive throughout every season.

Boxwoods add structure to your landscape.

Boxwoods are among the most popular evergreen shrubs for landscaping. Their dense foliage and neat appearance make them a versatile feature for different landscape designs. This shrub comes in various shapes, from rounded and pyramidal to upright, and its size ranges from 1 to 20 feet tall and 2 to 8 feet wide. With their size, boxwoods are perfect as hedges, defining walkways and framing landscape beds. They help create structure in your yard and provide a rich green color that stays vibrant year-round.

Another great reason to use boxwoods is that they can easily be shaped and maintained through trimming. You can let your boxwood plant grow naturally or trim it into a clean and structured form to further add visual interest to your landscape. Because of their year-round color, boxwoods keep your yard polished and manicured even when other plants are dull and dormant.

Yews offer a beautiful contrast to your flowering plants.

Another green evergreen plant to add to your landscape is the yew. These plants boast a rich color and eye-catching texture with their soft, flattened needles that look like tiny leaves. These plants can range in size, from compact shrubs to larger, more upright plants. With their dark-green foliage, yews offer a stunning contrast to the vibrant colors of your landscape flowers. Whether you want to use yews as accent plants or group them together to add privacy to your yard, these evergreen plants will not disappoint!

What's more, yews are also flexible in landscape design. With their size and erect shrubs, these evergreen plants respond well to trimming and pruning, allowing you to achieve your desired shape and size. Yews can also be used to create natural boundaries in your landscape and provide an enduring backdrop that stays green year-round.

Taylor Juniper is a towering beauty that is low-maintenance.

Taylor Junipers are coveted evergreen plants that make for great privacy screens. This plant is a statuesque feature in landscapes, with its upright, columnar growth that adds an elegant and polished look. They can grow up anywhere between 15 and 25 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide, making them useful in areas where you want to add vertical visual interest but horizontal space is limited. As evergreen plants, their attractive blue-green needles take on a bronze purplish tone in the winter.

Because of their narrow shape, Taylor Juniper plants work best along property lines or when used to frame an entrance. Aside from their year-round beauty, this evergreen plant is also low-maintenance. It can handle dry conditions fairly well, thanks to its strong root system. Taylor Juniper is also pest- and deer-resistant, so you don't have to worry too much about the plant getting damaged!

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Evergreen plants are great additions to landscapes because they stay beautiful year-round! If you want to incorporate them into your landscape, you've come to the right place. Here at Clear Creek Landscapes, we offer a plantings and softscapes service to homes and businesses, as well as HOAs, in Omaha, Elkhorn, Gretna, NE, and nearby areas, including neighboring communities in Iowa. Our team can install new landscape beds on your property or renovate your existing ones to create a clean and healthy space for your evergreen plants! Call us today at (402) 677-7652 to sign up for this service and revitalize your yard's visual appeal.