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| 1. Rock walls and paths. The chance to look at your garden in the winter allows you to see what a vital role hardscaping plays in the overall backbone of your garden. These beautiful stone walls give a classic sunken courtyard feeling to this garden, framing the views beyond. Private Comment
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| 2. Structural evergreens. Evergreens that can be pruned into distinct shapes, such as boxwood and yew, can serve the same function as hardscaping. If your garden is already blessed with hardscaping and/or structural evergreens, you are two steps ahead of the game! Private Comment
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| 3. Grasses. Remember these ornamental grasses? You would be wise to choose a few for your winter garden. When the grasses dry in autumn, they will remain tall stalwarts of the winter garden, even under a cover of snow. Simply cut them down to the ground in spring, and the display will start all over again. Private Comment
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| 4. Sculpture. Adding art in the garden is another way to ensure there will be solid interest in the garden when the perennials have disappeered under the earth and flowers are a long-lost vision. Private Comment
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| 5. Fencing and furniture. Even when the climbing vines have long since died away from the fence posts, and no strollers are pausing to sit on the bench, those visions remain. Even bare, the shapes add structure to your garden all year. Private Comment
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| 6. Boulders are another option for creating a visually stimulating winter landscape. These boulders create a rugged winter garden that perfectly complements the home design. Private Comment
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| 7. Trees. Sometimes all that is left in a winter garden are large trees. Surrounding your home with these specimens provides a practical windbreak, but also provides a visual sense of enclosure. Consider planting smaller evergreens to complete the picture. Private Comment
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| When considering the winter landscape around your home, don't neglect to add both evergreen and decidous trees. Evergreens provide a bit of green in the lean months, as well as providing home for many woodland creatures. Deciduous trees can provide striking outlines in the winter snow as their trunks stretch upwards and their arms stretch outwards. Private Comment
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| 8. Bushes. In this garden, large trees and smaller bushes provide a framework that does not disappear when the snows come falling down. Private Comment
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| 10. Blooms. Add a few winter blooming bulbs to your garden. There is nothing quite like a tiny little bloom popping up from amidst the drifts of snow. Great choices for early bloomers include chionodoxa (glory-of-the-snow), snowdrops (pictured), hellebores and the familiar crocus. Private Comment
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