Find helpful tips and tricks for creating your perfect winter garden. Don't neglect your garden just because its cold outside! Play with structure, design and plants to create a magical winter wonderland.

1. How to Create a Wonderful
Winter Garden
By AVS Fencing Supplies

2. Now that winter is coming, you might be
considering what you can do to keep your garden
looking beautiful throughout the season. Just
because it’s cold outside, it doesn't mean you
have to neglect your garden until your plants
wake up.

3. Winter gardens can be enchanting places when they
are done right. So why not treat your outdoor space
to a little bit of magic and get it looking like a Winter
Wonderland in no time?

4. Applying structure to your garden will make it appear more defined
and look less like it has washed away in the rain, snow and ice. You
can also add plenty of interest in your garden with cleverly placed
architecture and boundaries.
Using a structure such as an arbour or an arch will be a focal point in
a garden that can look otherwise drab in the winter weather. A
simple structure can also help draw the eye away from something
like empty brown earth or some plants that need attention.
Start with Structure

5. Structural pieces can also be incorporated with your winter
plants. Plants add colour and vibrancy to a winter garden and can
be placed in creative places and ways.
Traditional plants such as holly and pyracantha, and festive
flowers such as aconites and snowdrops all add a drop of colour.
Trail your Christmas plants and flowers around a pergola or grow
climbing plants up trellis panels to get a good balance of structure
and nature. Or border the edge of your garden with garden
edging or railway sleepers to get a similar effect.

6. Spread those Aggregates
It’s not just plants and flowers that can inject colour into a dull
looking garden. Colourful aggregates such as plum slate can be used
around flower beds and can act as an alternative to grass.
Winter aggregates such as rock salt and Enviro Thaw are also
extremely useful for preventing snow and ice to build up. Practical
products like these will stop your garden ‘drowning’ and let all the
beauty you've created shine through!

7. Evergreen trees such as pines and cedars will
make your garden look like it’s just stepped off a
Christmas card. Conifers will add architectural
interest to your garden while maintaining that all
important natural appearance.
Plant Trees

8. With a few handy tips and a little inspiration, we hope you are
armed and ready to take on your garden this winter.
Do you have any top tips for creating the perfect winter
wonderland or do you plan on waiting until spring to pick up
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Now it’s Your Turn!