Designing your garden can be a thoroughly rewarding experience, with exciting decisions to make about which plants to grow. Gardening in the winter time is a thoroughly different experience to gardening in the spring or summer, but can be just as enriching.
If you want to create the best garden this winter time, here are five top tips for success.
1. Use Winter Plants to Brighten Up the Appearance
In the wintertime, gardens can seem a little bit drab and lifeless without the big and colourful flowers often seen in the summer.
However, in the winter, you can plant some hardy evergreen plants such as holly and winter heather that will help to brighten up your garden. You could also use your garden to grow some winter vegetables such as brussel sprouts, kale, leeks and parsnips.
You can even find some winter flowers that will bloom in the colder weather including Christmas roses, pansies, violas, snowdrops and crocuses.
Not only will these help to supplement your family’s diet, but gardening can also improve mental health and provide some entertainment.
Garden centres like Dobbies can supply you with all your gardening needs, including seeds, pots and stakes.
2. Consider a Greenhouse
A greenhouse is an essential component of any keen gardener’s garden. This will allow you to grow plants and vegetables all year round without worrying about the temperature or weather outside!
Whether you opt for a permanent construction, or a smaller plastic greenhouse for small pots and herbs, a greenhouse could be a great way to keep growing your usual produce in all seasons.
3. Create Decorations and Lights
Using decorations and lights in the garden can help you to brighten up your garden and give it some beauty and substance in the winter months.
Whether you opt for fairy lights, waterproof decorations, or mirrors, placing decor in your garden can help to make it stand out and become an enjoyable place to be in the colder months.
Using wire from suppliers like Ormiston Wire can provide a strong and waterproof solution to suspending lights or decorations in your garden. Using corrosion resistant wire made from materials like stainless steel or aluminium will enable a hard wearing and long lasting solution to all your decor needs.
4. Purchase a Fire Pit and Outdoor Seating Area
Who says you can only sit in the garden during the summer? Why not purchase a firepit from suppliers like B&Q to allow you to sit outside in the cold weather with a cosy beverage and some atmospheric music, and create a relaxing environment to be proud of.
You could even organise a party or gathering with songs, food and laughs, and the cosy feel of the fire will create the best social occasion you could wish for!
You could buy a seating area, or else make your own from recycled wood to help save the environment and tackle climate change. Building your own seating area could also help you to save costs and create a bespoke design that will complement your own unique garden.
Do you have any tips for creating the perfect winter garden? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!
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