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I've been reading Joy Larkcom's book "Creative Vegetable Gardening" in which she sets out her experience of growing mixed veg and flowers "potagers". (I can't use that word myself as it sounds too formal and planned which just isn't me!!)
She decided to grow a Winter garden, where all the crops and flowers that were at their best during winter would be grown. A productive, attractive focal point when the other beds were looking tired, rundown and going into hibernation.
Wandering around my garden today, its starting to look a bit sad. So many plants are dying back for winter or are on their last legs and I found myself drawn, repeatedly, to the big clump of Japanese anemones which are still flowering well.
What if I chose the part of the garden that has the most light and sun during the short winter days and turned it into a Winter garden. Maybe a sitting place for morning coffee on those lovely sunshiny winter days.
Do you have a favourite winter spot on your garden or allotment? Please share.
She decided to grow a Winter garden, where all the crops and flowers that were at their best during winter would be grown. A productive, attractive focal point when the other beds were looking tired, rundown and going into hibernation.
Wandering around my garden today, its starting to look a bit sad. So many plants are dying back for winter or are on their last legs and I found myself drawn, repeatedly, to the big clump of Japanese anemones which are still flowering well.
What if I chose the part of the garden that has the most light and sun during the short winter days and turned it into a Winter garden. Maybe a sitting place for morning coffee on those lovely sunshiny winter days.
Do you have a favourite winter spot on your garden or allotment? Please share.
. Only the good gardeners (some call them lunatics)
enjoy pitting there wits against adversity and growing stuff and enjoying there plot through the winter.
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