Winter interest can also come from the exfoliating bark of River Birch, paperbark maple, Fringe tree, and the colored bark of yellow and red twig dogwoods, and flowering crabapples and cherries with their mahogany colored bark.
Colored fruits show up on the persistent crabs, winterberry hollies, hawthorns and pyracantha.
Evergreen plants such as Lirope, rhododendron, pines and other evergreens, provide excellent winter contrast and color. Blue trees can be considered for winter such as spruce, juniper and cedar, while yellow cedar is also of interest. Also consider evergreens and contrasting foliage from plants such as vinca, pachysandra, juniper, boxwood, yucca, coral bells, Autumn Joy Sedum, euonymus, and ornamental grasses.