Winter in the garden

The garden will plunge into other colors, and let life in it boil not so actively, but become calm and peaceful, nothing will prevent you from admiring and admiring it, as before.



Planning your garden, you need to make sure that it looks beautiful in all seasons. When choosing plants, think about how they will becomelook like trees and shrubs without leaves, how slippery it will be in the frost or dirty in the thaw of the track, and if the fence does not spoil the impression of the garden when it is no longer covered by lush summer greens. The lawn, which is so attractive in the summer, will turn into a frosty frost into a snow-covered area - and this looks also very impressive, especially if it looks like a sculpture or an architectural form.



When winter comes into its own power, and trees drop leaves, it is them silhouettes become a refined garden decoration. The trunks and branches of trees form such cunning patterns that it is impossible to tear them away from them. Especially expressive Japanese cherries, miniature maples, willows, plums.

If in summer the main role in the garden is played by color, then in the winter the form comes to the fore. They pay attention to the crowns of deciduous trees and shrubs, the texture of their bark and the pattern of branches.



Particular importance and decorative elements - garden sculpture, furniture, pergolas, pergolas,fences, small forms of stone, metal, beautiful pots, old jugs, openwork benches - in general, everything that previously had a secondary role. Correctly selected and placed, they will revive the landscape and emphasize the beauty of nature.



Very beautiful look in the garden in the winter decorative fruit. It was at this time of year, slightly powderedwith snow they look especially bright and appetizing - and you want to taste the fruits of viburnum, mountain ash or rosehip that have become sweet from frost! .. For a long time fruit is preserved in barberry, cotoneaster, some kinds of ornamental apples.
In addition to decorating, fruits also attract birds to the garden, watching them will certainly give you many pleasant moments.



Evergreen plants also look worthy in this harsh time. In general, they are relevant for a garden of any timeof the year. In winter, the groups of evergreens look most harmoniously against the background of the deserted area. Among them are holly, mahonia, camellia, hellebore, erica and heather, many kinds of rhododendrons, sarcococcus, beautiful fruit, skim, some species of wolfberry and viburnum, a wide variety of conifers and many other plants.



An important point in any garden is lighting. In winter, when the duration of daylight hoursIt is reduced, without lights and fixtures not to manage. In addition to its main purpose, the lamps are used to create unusual visual effects in the garden. Directed rays, light nets or festive garlands will give it a festive look.



Do not hurry to cut off all the perennial flowers before the arrival of winter. It is necessary to cut off those of them that freezeand lose their shape, for example, peonies, fizostegii and others. But there are perennials that can keep their shape in the early winter, and snow and hoarfrost will only give them a fascination. Such perennials include derbennik, mullein, lyatris, yarrow, monarch, wormwood, hare cabbage, rudbeckia shiny, zopnik and many others. Almost before Christmas decorate the garden with bright leaves of the car, luxurious cabbage cabbage, dry astilbe whisk, inflorescence of large purifiers and brown boxes of irises. The flower garden can be arranged in such a way that its structure will be preserved even in winter.



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