Even at the lowest ebb of winter, Harlow Carr Gardens has welcome pops of colour here and there. The red table and chairs are now a bit faded, but still demand a photo. I enjoyed the adjacent planting of (what I think is) a variety of hebe with purplish tips (in the foreground of my photo) which echoed the warm theme.
Any flowers that survived the weight of the snow (mainly hellebores) inevitably looked sad and bedraggled. Elsewhere, the kitchen garden showed the most colour, with a variety of ruby chard rather broken from the snow though its richly coloured stalks still glowed brightly. A similar purple hue shone from the plant below, which I guess is some sort of red kale.
The little shrub (above) was just catching the light, its red twigs gleaming so brightly that it reminded me of that Bible passage about Moses and the Burning Bush.
Of course, the dogwoods reliably bring colour to the Winter Borders. In certain lights they seem to spark like fireworks.
Love the spots of colour you managed to find in the winter gloom! :)
ReplyDeleteA couple of these verge on surrealism...the way the light brings those red chairs, or the branches out of the background! wow. Though not Dali's style of surrealism, but I couldn't think of a better term.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to see these pics today.
ReplyDeleteI think that winter gardens can be beautiful, and the Dogwoods are especially lovely.
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