Not all plants sleep through the winter months. Cool season annuals thrive when the temperature drops. Annuals are inexpensive, providing an easy way to add months of color to the garden. As summer blooms fade, give your garden a face lift with these cool season annuals for winter gardens.
Colourful winter garden pot displays: Here’s how to get them right
28.10.2023 - 04:49 / irishtimes.com / Fionnuala Fallon
Garden for long enough and you eventually come to the inevitable realisation that for several perfectly good reasons it’s not that easy to create a memorably good winter pot display. Why not? First and foremost is the fact that unlike its summer equivalent (a completely different creature) you can’t simply stuff a winter container full of lots of frothy annuals, heat-loving, dramatic foliage plants, gauzy grasses, and showy, frost-tender perennials and then hope for the best. Instead the planting must be chosen to be resilient in the face of cold winter winds, heavy rain and frost, as well as tolerant of short days and low light levels, while somehow still being decorative enough to justify its prime position for up to six months. It’s quite the ask.
Add to this the almost non-existent growth levels during the cold, dark months of winter and very early spring – an often overlooked factor when it comes to creating that all-important sense of abundance – and you can see why so many gardeners decide to throw in the towel. And yet a lush and artfully-planted winter pot is exactly what’s needed during these cold, dark, wet months when it can feel like summer is a million light years away.
How to get it right? Let’s start with the container itself, which should be generously and elegantly proportioned (or as a friend described it, a pot with poise), and made of a handsome, durable, frost-proof material that won’t fade, discolour, crack or shatter. As regards size, I’d suggest a minimum height and width of 60cm. Big is best for many reasons, not least of which is that the larger the pot the greater the protection it gives plants’ vulnerable root systems from exposure to winter frosts and even periods of winter drought.
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