OK, here’s your chance! Your weekend assignment is to come up with a garden/landscape plan that would fit a roughly 6′ by 10′ area that incorporates as many elements of the winter garden as you wish. There are no rules or guidelines to follow, just do something that you think will look great and show it off! Do your best to put it on paper and blog on by Monday December 8, 2008 and I’ll add links to your blogs into this post. Don’t worry if your drawing skills aren’t what you think they should be, a simple outline would be enough to show everyone what you have in mind. If you don’t have a blog tell us about your ideas or send a picture to thehomegarden@gmail.com and I’ll add it to this post. This should be fun so get out your pencils and paper, markers or even crayons (we have a zillion of them around the house) and start designing!
On a related winter gardening note: due to extremely cold weather conditions (at least in my mind) the planting of my garden will be put on hold until I have a day in the mid 40’s or higher. This weekend is out since we have plans but I should be able to get the final installment of my Winter Gardening Design series finished next week.
Previous Winter Gardening Posts:
Designing the Winter Garden: Aspectual Musings
Designing the Winter Garden: Starting Small
Designing the Winter Garden: A Symmetrical Plan
Designing the Winter Garden: An Asymmetrical Plan
No pressure here! It’s going to be interesting because of the different zones. I’ll try.
If I didn’t despise winter so much, I’d offer up a plan. I reckon I could just submit a white sheet of paper designating snow. ;~O
A fun idea Dave! Now you’ve got me thinking about what I would do…
Thanks for the photography links!
Amy
Based on yer posts below, you don’t need any help! I would throw in a grass like miscanthus, and I LOVE the way a calm, heavy snow piles atop coneflowers, extending and accentuating the cone. Ninebark might be interesting with it’s bark, if up close. My red chokeberry, brilliantissima, is holding bright red berries very well….
Hi Dave, but it is so much fun to pick apart your plans!!! Just kidding, you know. 🙂 I agree with the addition of grasses, they add instant maturity to a young garden and can be divided ruthlessly.
Frances
Would it be worth adding some of these self contained water features to the garden? I know they are aesthetically pleasing but do they require much looking after?