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5 Tips To Look After Your Garden In Winter

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In the winter, I must admit it is very difficult to care and love your garden; this is down to the cold, wet weather which we experience. It is still possible to care for your garden in the cold months and make it look as amazing as it does the rest of the year. If you ignore your garden all through winter, then you are going to find yourself with a huge task as soon as spring comes round. Follow these 5 tips to make your garden look gorgeous all year round.

Tidy

The key to making your garden look beautiful all year around is by keeping it tidy. You shouldn’t just use your garden as a dumping ground for rubbish you no longer want in the winter. Clear up any unwanted debris and mess, and take them out of the garden. This will give you a good basis to work with. You should also clear up any dead leaves and weeds which you have growing in your garden. This is a task which you should continue to do all year round, as dead leaves and growing weeds is always an unwanted sight.

Lawn

You do not actually need to do much to your lawn in the winter to care for it, the best advice I can give to you is to just leave it. You can do lots of damage to your lawn if you decide mow it in winter and walk all over. You should avoid walking on the grass when it is cold or wet and you will force the grass to stop growing. A way to keep the grass looking fresh all year around is by sprinkling grass feeder and grass seeds onto the lawn. This will cover up any patches and keep the grass growing all through the year.

You should try and remove some of the dead leaves which you have on your lawn, this way it will look pretty all through winter.

Plants

You shouldn’t just assume that because it is winter you can’t have no plants, there are many plants which grow better in the winter compared to the summer. You should buy some winter plant life and plant these just before winter arrives. This will keep your garden looking alive and fresh through the whole of winter. You can also get some gorgeous garden ware such as lighting and gorgeous fencing which will make your garden look even better in the dark cold evenings.

Hayley loves making her garden into a magical wonderland each year. She uses http://www.nutscene.com/ to get some beautiful garden ware for the winter.






The winter garden

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I’m sure that many Gardeners are sitting back, pining for Spring to hurry up and arrive, but there’s no reason not to enjoy your garden, at least as a view from the window now in the winter time.

Did you plan your garden properly so that you would have something to look out on from your warm home through the long cold months of winter? Perhaps some nicely shaped evergreen bushes? Cedar, pine, perhaps a boxwood or two? Or maybe you have some trees or plants that produce lovely berries in the late fall that carry through to winter? Perhaps a Holly Bush? Even plants and trees with brightly coloured branches and stems can brighten up the winter garden. The branches of my Rugosa rose bushes usually turn a lovely redish shade when the season turns cool.

If you look out your window and find that you don’t have much too look at now that winter has arrived perhaps you should spend some time this winter planning for the next winter?

As I already mentioned above – nicely shaped bushes such as boxwood, cedar and pine give the garden something with colour to look at when everything outside is white – and they also add structure, or bones to a garden.

Plants from the Cornus family – Dogwood – have bright red or yellow stems. Then there are the Prunus Autumnalis which has flowers through the winter when grown in the correct climate. Speaking of climate- some of you may be able to grow winter blooming Heather, or Viburnum “Bodmantense”.

Take some time this winter to think about how you can improve on your gardens look for next winter.

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