Fresh Snow in Heidi’s Connecticut Garden

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Hi GPODers!

Our landscapes are ever-evolving and never the same from season to season, but here at Garden Photo of the Day there are certain gardens I have come to associate with specific times of year or a particular palette of plants. Carla Zambelli Mudry has a marvelous four-season garden, but her woodland landscape instantly conjures images of her vast spring bulb collection (Early Spring Flowers in Carla’s Garden). An array of fascinating plants provide year-round interest in Cherry Ong’s garden, but I find myself imagining her landscape bathed in fiery fall hues (Cherry’s October Garden in British Columbia) more often then not. And when I see a submission from Heidi Weirether in Redding, Connecticut, I’m immediately think of peak season flowers. We’ve seen her garden full of bright blooms in spring, summer and fall (check out some of those previous submissions: Heidi’s Flowers in Connecticut, Peak Season in Heidi’s Garden, Heidi’s May Garden, September in Heidi’s Garden, and more), but today we’re getting a glimpse her landscape as we have never seen it before: drenched in white after a fresh snow.

I thought I’d share a little slice of my winter garden with you.

Enclosed you’ll find a few photos of my garden swathed in fresh, sparkling snow. I decided to leave the ornamental grasses standing this year, hoping they’ll provide a little winter buffet for the birds. You can see a few of the feathered visitors perched among the ornamental grasses. To watch their tiny heads bobbing as they peck at the seed heads is a simple pleasure, but watching them chew away at the winter chill always brings a smile to my face.

We are used to seeing Heidi’s garden bathed in a wonderful array of colors and filled with many fabulous flowers, but these quiet winter scenes are magical in their own way. The twisting shapes created by branches and marvelous mounds of grasses and stems are the perfect forms to collect pretty piles of snow.

A lovely example of the birds that have visited and enjoyed Heidi’s ornamental grasses. Two dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) really stand out amongst the fresh white snow and dried golden grass.

During the growing season, the mature trees around Heidi’s property become a wonderful backdrop for the color and interest she cultivates within her garden. During the winter, these massive evergreens become the stars.

An old photograph of Boo my beloved dog taken during a winter many years ago.

Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful winter garden moments with us, Heidi! It is fascinating to see your space in such a different light, but I’m not surprised to find that your quiet time of year is still filled with enchanting plant beauty.

If you have photographed wonderful winter moments from your garden, we would love to see them! Alternatively, if you would like to move on from snowy scenes and want to look ahead to spring color, consider sharing photos of last year’s spring garden as we count down the days to the first blooms of the season. Submissions tend to dry up during the month of March, so any garden photos you would like to share are greatly appreciated and allow the blog to keep going. Follow the NEW directions below to submit your photos to Garden Photo of the Day!

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