Granted you may not spend a lot of time outdoors during the winter, but when you do, or when you look out thru the windows, why not have plants that add a little something to the winter landscape. 

Now evergreens are a given...pines and spruce...junipers and hollies...but add a twist by planting golden chamaecyparis or blue junipers...or how about weeping Norway spruce and weeping white pine.   

If you like weeping, check out the form of this clump of weeping beech trees.   

Grafted crabapples with their enlarged twisted trunks and eerie looking branching habit...great winter interest.  And the cool thing is, you really don’t appreciate these plants as much until their leaves drop in the fall. 

Now here’s one last plant... Painted Arum.  It’s a very unusual perennial...this wonderful foliage actually comes up in the fall!  If protected, they last all winter and into the spring...if  not, they die back and come back up next spring anyway.   

Arum will send up stalks of green white flowers in late spring, the foliage dies back, and the flowers form stalks loaded with orange red berries thru the summer.   Pretty weird eh?  And by the way, they love the shade.  Painted Arum.