Carol’s Garden in Winter

The cold months are still full of beauty

I ’m Carol Verhake , and I garden in Berwyn , Pennsylvania ( Zone 6b/7a ) . My 1.3 - acre garden has develop quite a bit in the over 20 days I ’ve populate on the prop . I ’ve taken down many ash trees(Faxinusspecies ) due to the ash borer threat and tot many new beds . I have both shade and sun and mostly dry ground . When I fall in erotic love with newfangled plants , I find a way to comprise them in the garden while reach to maintain a cohesive conception and flow rate .

I am very focused on layering and all - time of year interest , so it ’s a joy for me when I see thing blooming in December and January . I also adore my bird community . They have made themselves at home as they haunt the heated up birdbath , take shelter in my shrubs and trees , and feast on my eatable plants .

This yr I added a moon gate to my garden that is made of pit . The moon logic gate echoes the many big boulders that exist by nature on the holding and marks the entryway to the forest track . My hope is that garden visitor are move emotionally or spiritually when they see and walk through the logic gate . I adore this newfangled feature article .

The flowers of this amethyst witch hazel ( Hamamelis‘Amethyst ’ , Zones 5–8 ) are commence to uncurl their flower petal . Witch hazels can bloom right through the coldest parts of the class , with the petals curling fast in the coldest weather and unfurling again when it warm a small .

rise aster(Ampelaster carolinanus , Zones 6–9 ) is a late fall bloomer that can keep on going right into the first snowfall .

Autumn fern(Dryopteriserythrosora , Zones 5–11 ) is most celebrated for the carmine flush on new fronds in the spring , but the one-time fronds are also semi - evergreen , hold upright through the winter in milder mood and pass away back if the cold have too intense .

‘ Barmstedt Gold ’ witch hazelnut ( Hamamelis‘Barmstedt Au ’ ) blooms , with the moon gate seeable behind it .

Bluebirds rest on a planter that has been decorated for the winter with thinned branches and berry .

Early amethyst beautyberry ( Callicarpadichotoma‘Early Amethyst ’ , Zones 5–8 ) has bright berries that will persist into wintertime until the shuttlecock gobble them up .

Edgeworthiachrysantha(Zones 6–9 ) has beautiful , fragrant flowers in early spring , but the silky , silvery blossom buds are also quite beautiful as they wait for wintertime to end .

Carol ’s young lunar month gate is a arresting addition to the landscape painting that will look good every twenty-four hour period of the year .

age peak heads ofoakleaf hydrangea(Hydrangea quercifolia , Zones 5–9 ) in the C. P. Snow

A yellow - throated sparrow is one of the many birds that call Carol ’s garden home .

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