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THE GARDEN IN WINTER
It’s easy to forget that during a European winter the garden can lie fallow for nearly a third of the year. Slowly the trend wheel is turning and designing a garden to look good in winter is becoming desirable and achieveable. Great leaps in modern architecture the last five decades have made houses possible with large frontages of well-insulated glass. Our generation rubs noses with the outdoors in summer, but also in winter. A thoughtful garden design that will show structure and texture in winter gives us something to marvel at those long winter days. Few realise how much can be achieved with a careful selection of evergreen and deciduous plants. Fewer realise that there are plants that burst into flower in this the most inhospitable of seasons and fewer still are aware of the range of plants that provide a paintbox full of colours for the most monotonous time of the year. Here a selection: Evergreens:
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