Cottage Garden Winter Photograph:
Rose Arches Framing the Snow

Picture Description

With everything covered in snow, we've included this picture to show how structure and height differences in garden design and layout can create a lovely view in the absence of any - visible - flowers.

• Cottage garden features: double rose arch framing the view of the rest of the garden, snow-packed garden paths, background - hardwood swing seat, shrubs.
• Cottage gardening plants silhouetted by the snow:
  • Left - Beauty Bush - (Kolkwitzia amabalis 'Pink Cloud'.
  • Centre and right - rose arches, hardwood swing seat and marble-top garden table with a wide range of shrubs forming a privacy hedge for the fruit orchard terrace, and our hanging bird feeder - we supply nuts all year round and add fatty seed balls to the menu from late autumn to early spring.
  • In the large photo - use the link above, you can just see the yellow flowers of witch hazel and the pink petals of viburnum covered by the snow.
  • There's an ancient bird house feeder at the base of the right arch - it's slowly rotting away (removed it in week three of February 2007) but it gets lot's of callers in summer.