Winter garden at RHS Rosemoor
Gardening in those dark winter days G
pyramids or lollipops or those which are naturally ardening and nature provided enormous solace architectural in shape. during the ‘lockdown’ spring of 2020, and although Carpet the ground with evergreen grasses like Carex and winter days don’t make it so easy or enticing to get Uncinia, and some winter flowers like hellebores, pansies outdoors now, our gardens can still give us a huge boost and violas. If your key viewpoints are soil-less, plant up during the darkest months of the year. Long winter containers, choosing pots that withstand frost and packing evenings are a great time to indulge in some ‘armchair’ plants in closely for maximum colour, as they won’t put on gardening, making plans for what to grow next year and much growth during winter. Larger-growing plants can go perhaps giving your garden a New Year makeover. Look in containers on their own and kept through photos taken through the there to give cheer for years to come. season, think about what’s worked Long winter evenings are a With social distancing here to well and what hasn’t, and browse great time to indulge in some stay for the foreseeable future, an through seed catalogues which are ‘armchair’ gardening, making outdoor seating area for all seasons packed with temptation. plans for what to grow next is creeping onto the wish list for Much of our winter garden year and perhaps giving your many. This can be created relatively admiring is done from indoors, garden a New Year makeover easily with wind-shielding screening, so take a good look from daytime a cosy firepit, outdoor lighting of viewpoints like favourite armchairs some kind (simple tealights in jam or breakfast and lunch spots, not jars work well) and a few containers planted for seasonal forgetting the kitchen sink. Concentrate on cheering interest. Some fragrant winter flowers will be even up these key spots with colourful winter plants, like more enticing, like the shrubby honeysuckles (Lonicera dogwoods (Cornus) with glowing red or orange stems; fragrantissima, L. purpusii); winter-blooming Camellia evergreens with golden, variegated or lustrous green sasanqua and Christmas box (Sarcococca). leaves; plants clipped in architectural shapes like balls, 28
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