could you please dd your location to your name.. on the member's page ...

oh.. where are you ... lol ...

does the snow last all winter.. eventually resulting in a glacier like mass of ice ...

bottom line ... one should plan plant placement.. so that you only have 'die to the ground in fall' plants.. where the snow is thrown .... simply removing the issue ... the use of annuals would also work ...

the only alternatives ... is artistic aiming of discharge to avoid such ... or hand shoveling certain areas so as to be able to place the snow to avoid damage ...

ken

never seen a list of things so defined.

generally, things recommended either have branches that bend well...think willow in the shrubby forms (artic blue leaf, hakuro nishiki), or short compact branches branches such as compact forms of Japanese holly. Things like certain juniper, the ground hugging forms, are also fine.

Just about any perennial (herbaceous, such as peony) as opposed to perennial shrub. They die back to the ground, so nothing permanent to worry about.

Then there's what one person said as opposed to what another said. I often see certain shrub junipers used in such situations, but others detest them because they don;t do well in such situations.

Zone 7B. On a average season, with mindful aiming of discharge location, I would say the areas in question have 15-24 inches that will build up and will last until spring melt. Being mindful, while still ~fresh~ and it has not frozen over, I will remove some with a shovel, but EHHHH, that;s backbreaking work .

The thing about annuals is that it takes until mid-summer before they really take off.....

7B WHERE!?!?!

Given the 7Bs I am familiar with, what you are saying makes no sense. So you must be in some mysterious other 7B, which remains nameless.

A1an, here is how to add zone and location info to your profile so that it posts automatically next to your name when you post.

Go to Your Houzz in the upper right of every page, click Edit Profile, and on the left side click advanced settings. Well down the advanced settings page is a blank labeled Climate Zone for Garden Forums along with a link to find your zone.

If you add info on your state or the nearest large city either here or on the profile page under the name posted, you will get even better information since zone only relates to average coldest winter temperatures.

Then return to the top of the page and click Done Editing.

Like mad_gallica, I am puzzled by the idea that snow would accumulate and last all winter in zone 7b which has average coldest winter temperatures of 5 degrees F, so many (most?) winter days get over freezing. I grew up on the edge of the Great Lakes in zone 6a, and even so we rarely had snow that remained all winter. Here in zone 5a/4b we often, though not always get snow that remains on the ground once fallen and blown or plowed.

Here snow-blown snow is quite rough on woody plants because of the total quantity and density of it, so the weight builds up and often causes damage. Generally in my area it is wisest to plant perennials in areas that receive blown or plowed snow. I have planted a few woody plants that do fine with being cut to the ground in spring if damage has occurred. Hydrangea arborescens and summer-blooming Spiraea will do fine if cut to the ground in spring, with established plants regrowing to reasonable size in a few weeks and blooming as expected in summer.

anyway ... its a machine operator issue.. imo ... throwing significant snow.. at say.. the speed of light from a gas engine [that would be cool... lol...maybe even better.. the speed of sound.. so you would get the bang...lol] .. is going to damage woody plants ...

so you either learn how to aim away from valuable stock ... or you plant things that disappear ...

its akin to peeps who have a one car wide driveway ... and want to plant garden strips down the drive ... but nobody can get out of the car without walking in the garden bed ... you would be challenged to find plants that can be walked on ... so you would reserve the grass there for walking on ... [not a great example.. but hopefully you see the point]

ken