Winter doesn’t mean your garden would become a forbidden forest. With some careful planning and attention, you can make an ideal winter green space, even in the coldest months of the year.
Garden experts like those at Oeco Garden Rooms excel in providing you with the best-customised gardens. They’ve provided us the following useful tips to create an ideal winter garden:
Design of your Garden:
Unlike summer when the garden is fully bloomed up, plants start to wither in the winter season. Gloominess follows and your garden starts to look empty and deserted. You can use wall gardens, hedges and raised flower beds to fill in the bare bones of the garden. The best part is that you can move them around as you need.
A Touch of Seasonal Colours:
It is true summer gardens are full of bright colours and greenery, but winter gardens don’t necessarily have to be gloomy and plain.
Add the winter touch of red and white with some gorgeous Hellebores aka the Christmas rose. The beautiful big leaves are just what you need to cover up the bare spaces. With bold white colour, Clematis Jingle Bells makes for the perfect winter plant for your green space. This plant would require occasional pruning, as it could grow pretty high.
For snowy season, nothing could be better than Fir trees. Make sure you select the smaller kind of Fir, as the bigger species could go up to 80 feet. Other nice colourful options include holly trees with red berries, Cotoneaster horizontalis and Pyracantha etc.
The Aroma:
Just like your house, your garden needs that festive aroma of winter too. For the yummy liquorice smell, grow Witch Hazel. To give your garden the citrus scent, winter honeysuckle with its lemony smell is what you need. Want something that doesn’t require much looking after? Plant Sarcococca; it is also known as Christmas Box or Sweet Box. The white flowers produce a very captivating honey fragrance.
Some Decorations:
Is it possible to create a winter garden without decorations? Never! Arrange fairy lights and lanterns throughout your green heaven to give it some life during cold winter nights. Cover your Fir trees with fairy lights or put a lantern just next to your flower beds. Add baubles and tinsels, tie ribbons to the trees or even hang wreaths here and there in your garden.
A Fire Pit:
Families avoid going to their gardens in winter because of the cold. Build up a nice and warm fire pit somewhere in your garden, to make it a welcoming place for the family. Invest in patio heaters and chimeras if you have extra in your pocket.
Attract Robins to your garden:
A winter garden with no birds chirping around is incomplete. What could be better than the presence of beautiful Robin redbreast, especially when the Christmas’s close by?
Invite different birds to your garden by putting up plenty of sunflower seeds and seed balls. Dried lentils are not liked by many, so better to avoid them. The lovely robins love to eat crushed nuts. How about you give them a treat?
