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A Year in the Garden |
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JANUARY January is a quiet time in the garden, giving the opportunity to plan for the coming year, and making the best of dry frosty days to tidy up outside. At this time of year the coloured stalks of cornus - red, green, yellow and black, provide interest in the 'Winter Border' while elsewhere the white bark of silver birch, the coral red of acer senkaki and copper prunus serrula glow in the winter sun. Viburnum Bodnantense has been in flower since November and now the Witch Hazels are in full bloom - their perfume wafts around the garden on warmer days. It is lovely to see the first snowdrops coming out under the hedge - a real sign of Spring. The evergreens come into their own at this time, in the summer they recede into the background, but now ivy Paddy's Pride, Juniper squamata 'Blue Carpet' and euonymus 'Limelight' make a bold statement. |
