Cottage Garden Winter Photograph:
Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn' and Dogs

Picture Description

The features, winter colours and plants in bloom are -

• Cottage garden features: garden path surfaced with wood chippings, background - our rustic red brick cottage with door and windows framed in white, the double rose arch, the newly-built (summer, 2006) pergola for the chinese wisteria - Wisteria sinensis - and our dogs, Mickey and Minnie - notice how they both turn their backs toward the rays of the sun just like sun bathers, very exact.
• Cottage gardening winter flowers and colours in the:
  • Foreground - flowering or Japanese quince - Chaenomeles x superba - with reddish branches and the remnant of a plant coloured ghostly white by the previous night's frost.
  • Centre stage - Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn' with pink-white flowers and the white dogs on the right.
  • Background - butterfly bush still covered in leaves (grey-green) and seed heads (brown), the rose arches with bird feeder and the part of the pergola.