Winter Gardens
Ideas for Creating Winter Interest in the Garden
Discover the beauty of late-winter's structural silhouettes, colorful stems, and more.
Brighten up your landscape with plants that shine during the coldest time of year.
16 Winter Flowers for Your Garden
Undaunted by snow and cold temperatures, winter is the time for these arctic beauties to shine.
Design a Winter Garden That Combines Toughness, Color, and Texture
Create the perfect winter-interest garden with these expert tips from Adrian Bloom.
Plant Picks for a Beautiful Winter Garden
Discover Adrian Bloom’s favorite plants for adding color and texture to your winter garden.
How to Prepare Your Garden for the Winter
Tips to ensure your garden has a peaceful winter sleep with the help from three essential books from Timber Press, you can treat your garden to a restful winter slumber, and it will awaken healthy and fresh for a new season.
Mild Climate Winter To-Do List
Tips to keep your garden looking its best through winter and plan for spring.
Cold Climate Winter Garden To-Do List
Tips and ideas for what you can do to care for your garden over winter and get ready for spring.
Winter Gardening Tips and Chores
Get ideas for winterizing your garden and creating four season interest.
Winter is the perfect time to take a step back and spend some time planning and designing. Landscape designers in Los Angeles, Connecticut, and Chicago share helpful insights on what you can do now to enjoy your garden this spring and summer.
If you enjoy the company of houseplants, consider cultivating a window garden, which is ideal for showing off plants in the winter. Creating a window garden is easy—you need only to extend the existing sill, and then mount, on the window frame, glass shelves, brackets (if you want them), and lengths of wire (for training vines). In my window garden, I paint horticultural portraits to emphasize the seasons. In this slide show, I'll show you the many different window gardens I've created in my house.
Frost flowers form when when sap in the stem of a plant expands, casting long, thin cracks along the length of the stem.
Learn how to plant snowdrop bulbs and care for them as they grow
Front Yard Makeover: A Winter Jewel Box
With the odds against her, Joanne Fuller of Portland Oregon turns her problematic sloped shade garden into a winter jewel box of hellebores and Lenten rose hybrids which can all be enjoyed at eye-level while still enjoying her privacy and the little natural light the mature oak trees allow.
When it comes to conifers, the delight is in the details.
Witch Hazel: A Tonic for Body and Soul
Bursting into bloom just as winter takes over, witch hazel not only offers hope that spring is on the way with its fragrant bright blooms, but also offers time-honored healing qualities that make these east coast natives a tonic for the body and soul.
A Guide to Bringing Outdoor Plants Inside
When it starts to get cold out, it only seems natural to make sure your pets are indoors and the kids have their scarves. Don’t forget a number outdoor plants can be brought indoors during the colder months to help save them for another season. Here's our guide to overwintering plants (as well as a list of which plants to toss).
Our how-to for using milk and water jugs to create your own planters to sow seeds in the snow. Yes, you can start sowing seeds now, even if you're snowed in, and be rewarded with hardy vegetables and flowers in the summer.
My Garden: Winter in Petaluma, California
The story and photographs of one reader's winter garden in Petaluma, California.
My Garden: Frost in the Valley
A stunning late-season garden in a valley of the Appalachian Mountains, in North Carolina, has profuse plantings of dahlias, asters, salvia, and more.
Botanic Notables: Ornamental Kales & Cabbages
Ornamental kales and cabbages are ubiquitous winter foliage plants, with leaves that turn colors after a couple of frosts.
Now is the time to get forced bulbs ready—we show you how! Plus: How a gin cocktail keeps paperwhites short and manageable.
Snowdrop fanatic David L. Culp—he has the second-largest collection in the country!—talks about this winter-blooming bulb, saying that "Anything that blooms against the odds has a place in my heart." Plus: His favorite plant pairings for the Giant Snowdrop.
A beautiful and necessary occurrence in the garden, Jack Frost transforms gardens into a glittery scene of ice and sleep while never being certain when the curtain will rise. From old wives tales to the Farmer’s Almanac, which are the best clues as to when the star of the winter months will make his first appearance?
How to Photograph Plants in Winter
Tips from a professional photography on how to create compelling outdoor images during the winter months.
The greenhouse makes a comeback in some surprising places.
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