In winter, it is normal for the plot to feel empty, dead and boring. How to arrange the land so that you can enjoy its beauty in winter, briefly some essential things.
THE RIGHT PLACE
During the winter we spend most of our time indoors. So beautify those areas of the garden that you see most often when you are at home. Look at the view the windows of the room overlook if you spend every day in the kitchen, if you like to spend the evenings in the living room. These garden areas should be well thought out.
Also pay attention to the places you pass every day in your garden. They are also important and should be emphasized in the cold season.
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Once you know the areas of the plot that receive the most attention during the winter, you can choose ways to make them more expressive.
PLOT STRUCTURE
When snow blankets the area, everything appears to blend together. The parts that outline the land become more visible: buildings, clear edges of the property (fence), trees, bushes.
By using larger rocks or stones, brick walls or wooden fences, you can divide certain spots like flower beds, kids’ play areas, gardens, or ponds. When creating different textures, stick to a few types of materials: using the same ones creates unity. So, if you have chosen concrete and metal features for a modern-style house, a wooden gazebo would certainly not fit. And it is especially in winter, when plants are less noticeable, that the mismatch becomes very significant.
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Greenhouse in spring or how to prepare a greenhouse after winterTemporary outdoor furniture and structures, such as a bench with a table, sculptures, swings, will also maintain their shape under snow cover. You can build or buy a feeder that will not only keep your birds happy through the winter but will also add a lovely touch to your yard.
TREES AND SHRUBS
Also woody plants time frame structure. The trees and bushes stand out against the white snow and give that vertical skeleton that is so lacking in winter. In the dark, the colors of the plants are not bright, so their clear definition is necessary. For hedges, choose laconic and simple forms of pruning. So, even after the snow appears, such shapes will be clearly visible.
Some plants, for example, do not lose their leaves even in winter scribble (Carpinus), whose curled brown leaves cling stubbornly to the branches and shake in the wind. Recommended for the hedge. We will also look for photos 😉
It is common to admire coniferous plants in winter, such as thujas, firs, pinesbut it is worth mentioning other evergreen plants, that yes, boxwood. Also suitable for hedges.
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How to plant a terrace, especially when part of the plants are in the shadeIf there are no leaves or needles, all the attention is for trunk and branches. Therefore, the white color is best seen on dark winter evenings birches they may be a good choice, because they are probably the only ones in our region that have significantly lighter bark than other trees.
White dogwood (Cornus Mas) ‘Siberian’– a shrub whose red shoots will make a bright accent in the garden even after the snow has fallen. Undemanding, fast-growing shrub, it tolerates pruning well and will delight with its white-green leaves in summer.
Lazdynas (Coryllus) ‘Majestic Red’ will surprise you with incredibly twisted twigs. In the summer with leaves, such a hazelnut may seem strange, but in the winter it will decorate the whole garden ( more about him here).
There are plants whose berries, covered with snow or frost, look no worse than in summer. This sea buckthorn, thistle, thistle. These plants are cold hardy and the berries are bright red
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A beautiful greenhouse not only for growing tomatoes, an example from the Kaunas regionDon’t forget about the other bushes, which are not so bright red, but no less interesting. For example, orange rowanblack chokeberry ar Punic leaf blister.
LUXURY FLOWER GARDEN IN WINTER
Although it is customary to remove the above-ground part of ornamental herbaceous plants before winter, the naturalistic waves (also called Dutch Wave, Prairie Gardens etc.) fans just like her leave intact until early spring. Such herbaceous perennials as monardos (lot.Monarda), astilbe (Astilbe), abstract (Aster), Veronica (Veronica), zundos (Eryngium) and others. They do not sag from the cold, retain their structure and strong inflorescences, therefore they perfectly decorate the garden in winter. Unrepeatable rudbeckia (Rudbeckia) it is echinacea (Echinacea), whose floral centers are bright black in winter.
It looks great in winter ornamental grasses: Miskantai (Miscanthus), buttercups with thorny flowers (Calamagrostis x acutiflora), Sorrel (Penniseto), blueberries (Molinia) e broom handles (Deschampsia).
They sway gently in the wind, so they bring life and dynamism to the garden.
EXTERNAL LIGHTING
If you want to see the beauty of your garden when you come home after work, external lighting in winter – inevitable. It illuminates not only the path leading to the door, but also the plants and sculptures. Better yet, you can change the position of the spotlight, so you can easily adapt the lighting to the winter situation, when the plants look different than in the summer. With outdoor lighting you will double the beauty of your garden: you will be able to enjoy it not only on weekends, but also every day, morning and evening.
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