Re: Winter interest/Backdrop
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Winter interest/Backdrop
- From: M* M*
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:15:21 -0700
Anne wrote:
>Here's a new topic: What are those of you in cold climates growing that
>provides winter interest?
Here in my particular area, most of the flowerbeds are still covered with
about 2 or 3 inches of snow. Where the wind or sun have bared the ground,
all is brown, including the iberis and the vinca minor. The thymus
serphyllum lanuginosis is brown, but it will probably green up in the
spring. I have it in an amazingly exposed area, draped over a railroad tie
just below our mail box and it survived minus 40 in previous years.)
Evergreens are the only winter garden interest here...and some are still
wearing their Christmas lights! Otherwise, there are only skeletons of
coneflowers and a few other long-bloomers that didn't get cut back. This
part of the country just doesn't lend itself to lovely winter garden
vistas...we must be content, instead, with the view from our living room
window of hayfields, wheatfields, pastures, and pine-covered hills. Come to
think of it, here's a new topic: gardening with a fabulous backdrop. I sort
of take my surroundings for granted, and it's only when looking at photos
of my yard that I realize just how lovely the background is, and
how---sometimes---I totally luck out and manage to do something really neat
with the gardens/landscape thing. And believe me, it's always accidental. I
may think about the view from the county road or the view from the kitchen
window, but that always just involves the plantings and not the backdrop.
Myrna, Zone 3, Montana (just drove 200 miles today for plastic plant labels
and cell packs....well, a craft bazaar, too.)
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