Most gardeners store away their pots before winter hits, but not Scott Endres, co-owner of Tangletown Gardens in Minneapolis. When temperatures drop, he fills his containers with eye-catching combos of cold-hardy plants and cuttings. Six of Scott’s wintry designs were featured in his article It’s Never Too Cold for Containers, published in the November/December 2011 issue of Fine Gardening. Here are nine more of his winter designs.

Classic iron urn

1. Preserved baby eucalyptus
2. Brunnia
3. Western red cedar
4. Princess pine
5. Yellow-twig dogwood
6. Peacock feathers
7. Bleached kuwa sticks
8. Fraser fir

Cast stone container

1. Weeping willow
2. Princess pine
3. Banana sticks
4. Preserved eucalyptus
5. Paper birch bark
6. Orange winterberry
7. Western red cedar
8. Dried fern fiddleheads
9. Orange winterberry
10. Black spruce
11. Pheasant feathers
12. Bark wrapped wire
13. Buddha nut pods (Pterygota alata)
14. Moss-covered orbs
15. Boxwood
16. Grape vine

Ceramic bronze due

1. Balsam fir wreath
2. Jeffrey pine cones
3. Norway pine
4. African knobs
5. Red-tipped pussy willow
6. Southern magnolia
7. Lemon cypress
8. Cinnamon sticks
9. Pepperberry tips
10. Sequoia cones
11. Reindeer moss
12. Spanish moss

Double rice containers

1. Boxwood
2. Paper birch
3. Orange winterberry
4. Pheasant feathers
5. Princess pine
6. Southern magnolia
7. Sugar pine cones
8. Blue-berried juniper
9. Incense cedar
10. Cinnamon sticks
11. Polished white stones

Window scene

1. Norway pine
2. Sugar pine cones
3. Flame willow
4. Preserved reindeer moss
5. Orange winterberry
6. Southern magnolia
7. Paper birch stems
8. Paper birch tips
9. Rose hips

Fiber-clay classic

1. Redtwig dogwood
2. Boxwood
3. Shore pine
4. Pepperberry tips
5. Sugar pine cones

Hypertuffa

1. Paper birch tips
2. Black spruce
3. Paper birch stems
4. Norway spruce cones
5. Norway pine
6. Sugar pine cones
7. Manzanita branch
8. Manzanita branch

Contemporary aluminum cubes

1. Paper birch
2. Variegated boxwood
3. Princess pine
4. Starfish
5. Noble fir
6. Polished black stones

Faux bois three

1. Lemon cypress
2. Cinnamon sticks
3. Pepperberry tips
4. Sequoia cones
5. Reindeer moss
6. Spanish moss

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