Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Winter now. We’ve been preparing to accept the colour bleeding gradually from the world outside for a season. Berries are the exception, so too are the jewel-bright stems of willows and dogwoods, cut back hard in spring to promote the juvenile growth with the most vivid shades. Willows like Salix alba ‘Yelverton’ are pollarded, cut back to knobbly growing points on a stem only a meter or so in height, while traditionally dogwoods (here Cornus alba ‘Elegantissima’) are treated in much the same way, coppiced back to a ‘stool’ at ground level. The leaves on all but the variegated varieties aren’t much to look at for most of the year, but once they fall, the show begins.
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