Winter Gardens. Is your garden arranged with ornamental things that add a splash of color even in winter?
Posted on Dec 09, 2008 under garden advice |Some statues, ornaments or gates to catch and hold the glistening snow? Maybe red berries or an ornamental tree that rises up out of the sleeping earth. I love gardening and in the winter gardens sleep so I make sure mine still brings me joy when I look out the window, especially when it snows.
Nope. I’m not really into statues, etc. A great way to add colour to a winter garden is planing a dogwood bush with red bark. Very nice against the white snow.
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December 9th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
No wish we had snow in winter. Have only seen snow once in my life. If I had a snowy garden I would put beautiful statues in it just to be covered with snow. But then again look on the bright side I do not have to worry about frost etc killing my plants.
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December 9th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Gazing globes … there are so many different sizes, and colors available now. I leave many of the perennials and grass stalks standing til spring and the gazing globes add to the effect.
Thanks for the question.
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December 9th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Nope. I'm not really into statues, etc. A great way to add colour to a winter garden is planing a dogwood bush with red bark. Very nice against the white snow.
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December 9th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I grow native berry bushes, like wintergreen, nandina, blue girl holly (and have Blue Boy, too,-but the male doesn't give berries; coffeeberries, porcelain berries, snowberries, yaupon, toyon, and lemonade berry; among those I have many type of bunch grasses, with birdfeeders and a birdbath, along with birdhouses that look beautiful when the snow hangs off the little roofs; but up close to the patio area I plant calendulas and dianthus for bright flower color. I also put out hummingbird food each morning and bring them in before nightfall for the little stragglers who don't go farther south for the winter. I also hang twinkle lights in my apple orchard–it looks like a winter wonderland at night. All is well in my world, unless, of course, it snows on my dish on the house roof and knocks out my TV reception!
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December 9th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Yes, winter berries, evergreens (predominantly dwarf) winter silhouette of wisteria.
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December 9th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Plant sage. The sage plant will bush and become glorious in no time at all. It is now November and the weather here in N Michigan is very cold. The sage leaves will remain intact for most of the winter and I can cut fresh sage in the bitterest cold. The color of sage against the snow is awesome. That's about the only winter plant I have going outdoors. I also left my birdhouse gourds on the fence. I read an article that I could cure them by leaving them out in the winter. They look splendid on the fence. Also, I still have some pretty healthy catnip plants still going but they will be gone in a few more weeks. I leave my dried goldenrods rather than cutting down. They stick up out of the snow and the birds perch on them all winter. Since they attained about 5 feet, they will be available to the birds for most of the winter.
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