Gardening for Winter Interest

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Gardening can be a four-season activity. We all know about the new colors and verdant growth of spring, the abundance of life in summer, and the waning harvests of fall, but winter is often disregarded as an important gardening season. I love my winter landscape and the season provides wonderful opportunities for unique garden appreciation. It begins by choosing to garden for winter interest.

You garden for winter interest expecting and looking forward to the days of cold. It’s not much different than planning your plantings to enjoy the color and texture and size of varied plants during their prime growing time. By gardening for winter interest you imagine how the same plants will look when covered with frost or ice or snow. You anticipate how they will appear when dead or dormant.

On cloudy, gloomy days the brown and plain foliage of dead flowers, grasses, and shrubs can be…

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http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.htmlI like to garden and i believe that iit is a good hobby. It allows me to relax in ways that nothing else can help me. I love to watch my fruits, vegetables, and flowers grow because I am the one that planted them, watered them, pruned them, and then ate from them. A good quote that I think is very fitting is one by Luther Burbank and it goes like this”Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” I think that gardening should always be something relaxing, and if its taking more out of you than your job does then maybe you should examine some things and possibly start over.

 

 

 

 

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