Garden design in the snow!

I know we’re all fed up with the snow by now and anyone who works outside particularly so. But there is an upside to all this weather – it makes the garden look so very pretty. I took this photo of my garden last week:

It’s in winter that a really good garden design and structure in the garden becomes apparent, so when designing a garden this has got to be taken into consideration. Gardens are not just to be enjoyed in the summer.
Even on a day like this I get pleasure from looking at the birds, who have completely decimated my crab apple tree. In winters like this it becomes apparent why it is important to leave seed heads on perennial plants until cutting back in spring when food becomes more plentiful for the birds again.