Winter Gardens. Is your garden arranged with ornamental things that add a splash of color even in winter?

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.

Winter Gardens. Is your garden arranged with ornamental things that add a splash of color even in winter?
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.
Reply: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!
Reply: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.
Reply:Yes, winter berries, evergreens (predominantly dwarf) winter silhouette of wisteria.
Reply: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.
Reply: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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