Category Archives for Winter
Ericaceous plants for Winter effect
Zur deutschen Version For the past two weeks I have been writing about plants that provide valuable green colour in our monochrome wintery gardens and mentioned the Japanese art of using azaleas as clipped evergreen structure. Azaleas are part of … Continue reading
More Evergreens for the wintergarden
( German version) For the first Advents weekend I wrote about the evergreen shrubs in my small courtyard garden. However large or small a garden is, plants that retain their foliage during the wintermonths are invaluable, which is why I … Continue reading
Valuable evergreens in my garden
German version As the last autumnal colours disappear from our landscape and the wintery silhouettes of tree and shrubs show their beautiful outline against the wintery sky, I start to really enjoy the evergreen touches in the garden. During the … Continue reading
The Hellebore Season has started
Zur deutschen version Much of this week the weather has been very seasonal: cold, grey and damp. I have always disliked this weather, as in Belgium where I grew up, it would oft hang around for days on end. Whilst … Continue reading
Advent at the Garden Academy
Deutsche Version – This weekend is the official inauguration of our advents‘ exhibition. As I write this, there are still dozens of colleagues decorating, sweeping, tidying, moving things around. This week no stone has been left unturned. Outside in … Continue reading
