I have to laugh when the authors of well meaning gardening articles encourage us to design our gardens for winter interest. I
wrote about this a couple years ago saying - “In northern, rural Canada the landscape is under so much snow and ice for so long, nobody cares or even remembers what the garden may or may not look like, or even where it was.”
At this time of year the sun barely crests the horizon its weak glow so dim that colour, what's that, is barely perceptible. Even the conifers dark green needles look black. The picture above is the view of my backyard taken from the sill of an open door that leads to a deck.
Have a Merry Christmas everyone, see you in 2013.
Looks like you just need to plant really, really big things to achieve Winter interest. Bundle up and have a lovely holiday!
ReplyDeleteMelanie, I just saw another blog post today that mentioned winter interest and I was thinking - man I have no idea what my yard looks like in winter, way too cold out there! A couple years ago I planted an evergreen rhododendron for winter interest (not long after we moved here) and now I'm laughing at that purchase. I have to burlap that rhodo in winter to keep it alive and a burlap tent is not exactly the winter interest I was hoping for when I first purchased this.
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