Highlight a maple tree in your island bed
Complement the brilliant downfall color of a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree like the Burgundy Belle ® red maple ( Acer rubrum ) with an island bed that put it in exfoliation with its surround .
Add multiseason interest
But do n’t just rely on color - vary foliage to add fall interest . Some shrubs , such as viburnum , mold beautiful berry that draw in birds , too .
However , limit how many different works you practice . Too many color and texture would be lose or blurred together in a bed that ’s often viewed from a distance . And keep in thinker that as the tree originate you ’ll need to interchange some of the sun - loving plants to things that will tolerate more shade .
Get the look of the garden below:
Meet the plants
take care through the slideshow below to bump out more about the viburnum and four other flora in this coloured gloam island garden bed excogitation !
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Golden pot marjoram ( Origanum vulgare‘Aureum ’ )
TypePerennialBloomsLavender - pinkish flowers from late summertime into fall and white-livered foliageLightFull sunSize6 to 12 in . tall , 12 to 18 in . wideCold - hardyUSDA zones 4 to 9Heat - tolerantAHS zona 9 to 1
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Plumbago ( Ceratostigma plumbaginoides )
TypePerennialBloomsBlue bloom in late summer to settle and leaf turn red in autumnLightFull sun to part shadeSize8 to 12 in . improbable , 12 to 18 in . wideCold - hardyUSDA zones 5 to 9Heat - tolerantAHS zones 9 to 1
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New York aster ( Aster novi - belgii‘Alert ’ )
TypePerennialBloomsDeep imperial - red bloom in fallLightFull sunSize12 to 15 in . grandiloquent , 15 to 18 in . wideCold - hardyUSDA zones 3 to 8Heat - tolerantAHS geographical zone 8 to 1
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Viburnum ( Viburnum nudum‘Winterthur ’ )
TypeShrubBloomsWhite flowers in spring and red come foliageLightFull sun to part shadeSize5 to 12 ft . marvellous and wideCold - hardyUSDA zones 5 to 9Heat - tolerantAHS zones 9 to 1
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Virginia sweetspire ( Itea virginica‘Little Henry ’ )
TypeShrubBloomsFragrant white flowers in early summertime and orangish , red and purple fall foliageLightFull sunSize18 to 30 in . tall , 24 to 36 in . wideCold - hardyUSDA zones 5 to 9Heat - tolerantAHS zones 9 to 1
