Winter Colour: Colourful stems

Winter Colour: Colourful stems

Now that deciduous trees and shrubs have lost their leaves, with only the bare bones left there are many shrubs with vibrant stems that can light up a garden or provide focal points at this time of year. The dogwood (Cornus) family in particular has colourful stems...
Winter Colour

Winter Colour

I love wandering around gardens in winter seeing them stripped back to their bare structure; it allows me time to look around my own garden and think have I got the bones, the core architecture of the garden right and to get inspiration from other gardens to add more...