A Garden For All Seasons

Creating a garden that you love can seem quite simple in summer but as the warmth fades and the nights draw in are you still feeling the love for your garden?  I know the sinking feeling as your once colourful borders disappear and you are left with dead brown stems and uninspiring masses of dark green. It seems a shame when so much effort and care, time and money is ploughed into your garden over summer, that as soon as Autumn hits the glory starts to fade.

Perhaps then it would be a good idea when considering improvements to your outside space to think of creating a garden for all seasons. If you don’t wish to risk a DIY job, you can choose Elk Grove tree and gardening experts. One only has to visit one of the impressive winter gardens around the UK to appreciate the value in creating a garden that remains beautiful throughout the year.  In fact many estates now positively encourage winter visits as they have such a range of plants to see that simply aren’t there or in season during summer.

A winter garden can also be a working garden providing root vegetables and hardy herbs to flavour your dishes.  For ideas on what to grow and indeed what to do with it see this interesting recent news article. For me, a heart warming vegetable stew cooked slowly in the croc pot is an absolute winner for visiting friends and family. Imagine how impressed they will be when they find out you are a chef with green fingers and that all of the ingredients are home grown!

Bearing all of these positives in mind it may be worth a trip to a local garden improvement centre where you can get expert advice and tailor made solutions for your outside space. After all, you don’t want to ruin what you have got in summer for something in winter. Instead you want solutions that will work year round. Perhaps new paving or a decking area to spruce up that dead looking corner? Milfords are garden specialists and locally based in Yorkshire with a public display area so you can not only see the products but also get some ideas as to what to do with them. Genius!

Here’s to a working garden then and a garden for all seasons that you will love as much in Winter as you do in Summer.