Wendy’s Winter Garden

Creating arrangements for winter planters

Wendy Gioiosa post in these shots of some of her winter planters and medallion in the garden .

This Brobdingnagian plantation owner is filled with cut verdure and berry , and is accented with twigs and branches . Any container you use for annuals in the summer can be transformed into awinter arrangementby sticking branch down into the soil like you would for a prime arrangement . The cool temperatures outside will keep the greens looking fresh a lot tenacious than they would indoors . Wendy used a combining ofconiferbranches and cuttings from a southernmagnolia(Magnoliagrandiflora , Zones 7–10 ) .

The same plantation owner is now covered with a fresh dusting of snow . lighting snowfall like this wo n’t damage the arrangement , but heavy coke may crush the branches . If you live somewhere with regular heavy snowfalls , setting the transcription under a porch roof will keep it looking fresh through the storms .

A endearing hollywreathis gilded with snow . It is amazingly easy to make your own coronal with clippings from the garden , but be trusted to wear stout gloves when handle prickly foliage .

Colored limelight add a seasonal solar flare to the snow-white landscape . And they are a lot easier to put up than stringing light through all the branches of a tree .

ruby lights illuminate the handsome container arrangement .

Sometimes nature puts on the best vacation decorations , with a gross dusting of snow outline each Chuck Berry - laden branch . effective of all , these beautifulberrieswill provide much - needed solid food for the local birds .

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