Six on Saturday. Twigs, Bark and Leaves in the Winter Garden.

We have had some beautiful January sun this week which cheers the spirits and lights up the leafage and coloured stems in the wintertime garden . The trees I institute down here are now fledged enough to make a show .

This is one of my favourite birches . It isBetula albosinensis‘Pink Champagne ’ . you could see a bit of the pinkish tinged bark to the left of the tree . It is so beautiful I feel I ought to make something out of it ; maybe enwrap it round a jam jolt for winter arrangements .

The coniferous tree to the left is one of my favourites , it isAbies koreana . Now it is mature it has good cones which seem like candela .

I also haveCryptomeria eleganswhich unremarkably looks wonderful in winter as it turns a endearing bronze colouring . This year it has been so mild that it has stay green .

Of course coloured stems are an significant part of the winter garden . The red staunch behind theAbies koreanabelong toAcer conspicuum‘Red Flamingo ’ , this wonderful tree looks adept all year round . In summertime it has pink , green and ashen variegated leaves .

Another acer with fab wintertime stems isAcer‘Bi Hoo ” this is planted in the newest part of the winter garden which is n’t mature yet . I have planted Box along the stepping stone way of life which will eventually be trimmed into a rotund shape so they look like snowballs if we get any snow .

Cornus stanch are vital for the winter garden , I have them in grim , gold - fleeceable , red and orangeness . Here is my new genus Cornus , it is even brighter than ‘ Winter Fire ’ , it is calledCornus‘Anny ’s Winter Orange ’ .

Prunus serrulashould be in every winter garden , it has such adorable lustrous barque which peels off in ribbons as it maturate . I grow it with the matching brownMuehlenbeckia astoniiwhich looks like bull wire netting . Behind you’re able to see unripened and red dogwoods .

I think I have hit my six which is a shame as there is so much else attend just in the wintertime garden and whilst we are sing about parting I am going to have to include a sneak numeral seven which is too practiced to miss out . I was never very good at either continue rules or enumeration . This small shrub wait wonderful all class round . It is calledLophomyrtus x ralphii‘Magic Dragon ’ .

We ’ll be going back to the winter garden again presently , I am so proud of with it and each day there is more to front at down here . I have just check some former photos and I gain that I started this seven years ago , it seems like yesterday . I have gradually made it bigger over the course of instruction of the last few years and I have gobbled up all the lawn down here .

Here are a few exposure of how it started and grow . I pop seven years ago by digging up the greensward , I must have been unhinged . Here it is drudge over and waiting for some manure to be spread .

All this lawn disappeared in 2019 . No more digging though , I just covered it up with a tissue layer .

Now the lawn has all gone and there is a crushed rock path through the wintertime garden . wintertime goes on for a recollective fourth dimension , it is deserving creating something endearing to keep you going through the murkiest months . Anyway , I seem to be digressing so much that it is a bit brash to call thisSix on Saturday , nevertheless this is what it is , give or take a industrial plant or two . I call for some field of study or I would keep you here all daylight whilst I evidence you every works in my endearing winter garden . As it is some of them will have to wait for next time . I have n’t even started on the wood anemone .

With thanks to our legion , The Propagator and apologies for bending the rules yet again .

22 Responses toSix on Saturday. Twigs, Bark and Leaves in the Winter Garden.

I enjoyed seeing your Winter Garden , which I ca n’t call back you previously showing in any detail . I love Abies koreana , which my westerly garden guide claims I can grow . I ’m tempted but I ’m not sure how it ’d look with my burgeoning collection of succulent . Lophomyrtus is list too but it may require too much water to pull through here .

Your wintertime garden is a gemstone , and those attractive plants brighten up the darker days . I enjoyed the extra and the word-painting of when you used more of the lawn area to enlarge and plant more .

Six on Saturday. Twigs, Bark and Leaves in the Winter Garden.