{"id":781,"date":"2011-11-30T13:58:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2011-11-30T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T19:06:48","slug":"winter-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/winter-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

My garden doesn\u2019t go into the winter season all tidy & neat. I enjoy seeing seed heads popping through the snow. The visual treat of shadows cast about by the wind, dancing along the walls seen from the windows of my warm home.<\/p>\n

From my dining room window, the seed heads of tall grasses are seen swaying in the breeze with the floodlight of the pure winter sun behind them.<\/p>\n

From the kitchen window the afternoon sun gleams through the slivers of peeling bark of the Acer griseum, wisely named Paperbark Maple. Tissue thin decorations provided by nature.<\/p>\n

What a joy to watch teensy birds land on the seed stalks of last summer\u2019s Echinacea, barely bending them. My winter garden provides them a smorgasbord of treats so they keep coming back for more. We have an agreement.<\/p>\n

The evergreen stalwarts of my woodland garden, the hellebores & Polystichum acrostichoides (what a fabulous name for a Christmas fern), help to delineate the pathways once the snow has fallen. They\u2019re markers keeping me on the right track. I need that help quite often.<\/p>\n

The hellebores serve another important service. They are the harbingers of spring. As I enjoy the subtle visual treats of winter I can\u2019t help but poke underneath their large leaves seeking hungrily the buds signaling the beginnings of a new season of visual excitement.<\/p>\n

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Chasmanthium latifolium. Northern Sea Oats gracing my winter garden<\/p><\/div>\n

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