FOREVER GREEN
WINTER BREAKS SOUTH & WEST WALES Midweek or Weekends in Feb. Tenby
If your garden is looking a bit bare at the moment, don’t be disheartened … it’s the perfect time to put some evergreen structure into it that will anchor your summer plants and keep your garden looking great throughout the winter months.
Evergreens are plants, shrubs or trees that don’t lose their leaves, even in winter. Which means that if you want colour and interest in your garden all year round, and if you don’t want to spend a great deal of time gardening, evergreens can be an ideal solution. If you have a large plot to work with, then you might like to consider including some evergreen trees, but for small outdoor spaces there are evergreen shrubs such as Skimmia japonica, there are ferns which stay green all year round like Adiantum venustum (Evergreen Maidenhair), there are heathers which do the same Erica carnea and there are also evergreen plants and grasses.
The joy about evergreens is that they are great as a year-round framework for the garden. You can use them to fi ll gaps in borders and cover boundary walls and fences or provide focal points and visual statements. You can also make your evergreen garden as formal or relaxed as you like. Symmetrically shaped box trees in containers, carefully trimmed hedges and evenly spaced trees and conifers or shrubs will give your garden a very formal look. Alternatively, mixing container plants with evergreen grasses such as Stipa gingantea, and planting a variety of different height plants and shrubs together, will look more natural and tranquil. Evergreens such as box, yew, bay, holly and conifers are also ideal for topiary – if you’re feeling brave you can create your own designs or simply plant topiary balls, cones or spirals for striking year round evergreen highlights.
Depending on the weather, February is a time to turn your attention back to the outdoors and venture out to see how prepared you are for the start of spring. Here are some expert tips of what to put on your February ‘to do’ list.
The essential spring job is digging and preparing, just so long as the ground isn’t waterlogged or frozen. Digging and forking the soil allows you to loosen it, remove weeds and add compost or manure, which will improve soil structure and create a moisture and food reserve for plants. There’s nothing better than digging and breathing in the smell of the soil as you turn it over, knowing that your efforts will be rewarded with some great tasting veg or fabulous fl owers. National Trust This month there are signs of the approaching spring, with bulbs appearing and wildlife waking up as light levels and temperatures increase. There’s plenty to do indoors this month to prepare for the season ahead. Outdoors, as the garden comes to life again, it’s time to prune shrubs and climbers, such as Wisteria as well as evergreen hedges. RHS
Create leaf piles in quiet corners of the garden border or leave a swathe of grass uncut; these offer mini- beasts places to spend the winter and provide ground feeding birds somewhere to forage. To help birds with springtime nesting, put out the fur from pet grooming so that birds can use the fur and line their nests (February and March and onwards). RSPB
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TENBY Ashby House
T e Feathers Caravan Park Llanwrda, Llandovery
Quiet picturesque holiday park nestled in the Towy Valley, just 4 miles from Llandovery.
Fully serviced pitches with 20ſt of garden and own parking space adjacent. Children and pets welcome.
The Feathers Caravan Park Llanwrda, Llandovery
Open 10 ½ months per year.
Quiet picturesque holiday park nestled in the Towy Valley, just 4 miles from Llandovery. Open 10 ½ months per year. Fully services pitches with 20ft of garden and own parking space adjacent.
Children and pets welcome. All rooms ensuite, FreeWiFi, TV,
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