To banish the grey, plant Winter sun
Jan 05, 2021
4 minutes
IT can be hard to keep your spirits up in the bleak depths of winter, but ensuring the garden shines with cheering yellows will certainly help. Luminous under a grey sky, the sunny flowers of winter-blooming plants such as mahonia cannot fail to raise a smile.
Yellow draws the eye and dominates all other colours, so it can be tricky to make it work in a summer border. But in winter, it comes into its own. In the midst of a barren garden, pools of blazing yellow aconites seem like a miracle and the canary leaves of ‘Emerald ’n’ Gold’ brighten the
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