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Jacky Parker

How to Design a Winter Garden — 8 Ideas for Landscapes That Look Beautiful Out the Windows in the Colder Months

RHS Harlow Carr winter garden planted with Salix gracilistyla ‘Mount Aso', Erica × darleyensis f. albiflora 'Silberschmelze'.

Gardens can look a little drab in the winter, especially when you live in a region with distinctive seasons. Once the temperature has seriously dropped, the spectacular crimson shades of deciduous trees have disappeared, and pretty perennials have gone into dormancy, the outside often looks bare and bleak. Yet thankfully, that doesn't have to be the case.

With a number of modern garden ideas and enduring techniques brought up-to-date, it is possible to achieve color and interest in your yard, even in the depths of winter.

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