Friday, March 30, 2012

Winter Gardening Ideas to Beautify Your Home

A renovated home with new additions and modifications give a beautiful look. However, it is mere waste if you leave your garden or yard without any care. Modifying the appearance of your garden regularly further enhances the beauty and value of your home. Winter gardening is a good time of year amongst all those show off winter flowering plants.

It seems to be hard to get plants grow in winter. Winter gardening starts well before the first frost settles on the plants in your garden. Make your garden look beautiful and start adding plants that bloom in winter months before the fall is approaching.

You can create new vegetable plots. Remember to manure or compost for better growth. Remove all the annuals or biennials which finished their flowering. Also clear the space around the perennial plants by removing the old spent leaves and loosen the surrounding soil surface. Now, add special winter flowering herbs and shrubs to the garden. Choose contrast colored flowering plants and design proper locations for them in the garden. During gardening, make sure that you do not walk on soil that is frozen or covered with snow. Walking on such too wet soil destroys its structure. Remember, it is more important when the soil is clay.

Pansies, Iris, Crocus, Adonis, Narcissus, Hellebore and Cyclamen are some of the best flowering plants you can add for your winter garden. They will flower throughout the winter and even flower into spring. Even heathers bring an elegant look to your winter display. Add some water features like fountains and waterfalls to further beautify the winter garden.


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