January 9th, 2010, Outside My Window
When designing a garden planting, winter should factor into your plans as much as the flowering season.  Bark colours, plant forms, grass plumes, tufted seedheads ...
Once the blanket of white envelopes everything, a winter garden can be just as interesting to look out onto than in summer.   Different, but beautiful in it's own more subtle way.

I leave most of my dead debris clean-up until late March just before the ground starts to thaw.  (Later in April the soil is saturated with water and walking on it badly damages it's structure.) 

              Happy new year!        Evelyn

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