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Garden Structure – How to Make Your Garden Earn it’s Keep at the Bleakest Times of Year



Bunny gives a quick tour of her garden when it is looking at its most forlorn.

She has been working away on other people’s gardens, so it has been neglected, paths not swept, weeds germinating in the recent heavy rain, no dead heading and titivating for the camera has taken place!

This video emphasises the importance of structure in a garden: hedges, trees, topiary, piers and evergreens and highlights ways to incorporate them.

Bunny also runs through her list of winter jobs (cutting hazel, dead heading, planting bulbs, removing stakes from her pleached trees, repairing blown stonework, mulching, sowing yellow rattle and much more) and highlights the importance of keeping the soil covered with plants especially in the vegetable garden to help prevent nutrients leaching and the soil structure breaking down. The annual Pictorial meadow mix is still flowering well though.

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23 Comments

  1. K Blain

    Great tour, thank you for sharing
    It’s a reminder to get back out there to the winter garden and keep busy
    The garden always thanks you for a bit of TLC, whatever the season!!!
    kbgardensnhomes 🤍🌿✨Kx

  3. Jane

    Oh Bunny your gardens look magnificent even in this season 💚

  8. Knappa22

    Ah yes I must remember to cut my hazel when the leaves have all come off.
    All I need now is a vast country house garden, time, and some hazel trees! :p
    Any very aged millionaires out there?!

  10. tinathene

    Just the encouragement I needed today 🌲to get my bulbs in nice and snug😅👌🏻🙏🏻🍁

  13. john smith

    The last garden was (surprisingly) my favorite too – for this season. Apologies for random question – how could I propagate true, from two much loved cooking apple trees that have been in a family garden for over 50 years? Could I send 'cuttings' to a specialist propagating 'laboratory' (if such a thing exists) to ensure success? Or something else. I fear another owner may chop the trees down ! Thank you.

  14. Diane E. Saunders

    I keep my dahlias in the ground too over winter with a bit of manure and piles of leaves. I live on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. (Pacific Northwest)

  16. Elie V

    Lovely ‘neglected’ gardens! Please could you do a video of your greenhouses, especially the tomatoes. It’s amazing you hope to harvest them until December. I thought that the low light levels would hinder them. Or do you use overhead lights on them?

  17. 1931Spanish Eclectic

    I'm looking forward, for the first time in almost 3 years, to having enough time to address the winter needs of my garden. Due to the drought here, the weeds seem to be producing an epic amount of seeds. 🙁 Working on sheet mulching open areas that I won't be able to plant with trees or shrubs anytime soon (lots of large cobble rocks and hard clay); cardboard, and leaves, trimmings, twigs, etc. from other parts of the property. Nasturtiums, California poppies, cilantro, and alyssum will grow there on their own. We expect rain all day Monday for only the second time since April, so it's time to clean my second large rain barrel and put out my buckets. I do love Bunny's topiaries and hedges, and hope to try those at some point. Despite the leaves and end of season 'mess', I'm quite pleased at how many plants survived our dry, dry Southern California summer. Glad I'm not the only one with a huge "To-Do" list. 🙂

  18. AJ’s Green Thumb, LLC

    My goodness if this garden is 'neglected'…Your garden structure is top notch and your point really hits home. I am always conscious of developing the structure in my garden. Thanks for the tour…it was a yummy treat!

  22. Harry Stevens

    I believe that a beautiful garden in winter is the biggest indicator off a true gardener – if their garden looks nice from now until spring then they have achieved the ultimate test in gardening. Rosemary Varey's book 'The Garden in Winter' is a great 'textbook' for this time of year

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