Garden of the senses

A blooming garden all year round

In winter, gardens are often bare and lack greenery and splashes of flowering colour.
But you can do something about a dull, colourless garden.
You can bring it to life with numerous trees, perennials, shrubs and flowers that bloom in the winter months.
With a little creativity and the right plants, you don`t have to miss out on beautiful blooms in your garden even in winter. There are various ways to have a flowering garden all year round.
We will show you these and give you ideas for your garden, so that a colourful variety also invites you to relax in your garden.

A graden with hardy shrubs & flowers

To do this, you repeatedly create small beds in your garden in which you sow hardy perennials and allow them to thrive. Some garden centres offer ready-made mixtures for this purpose, but you can also put them together yourself by selecting perennials and flowers that bloom at different times. Some perennials and flowers bloom well into November if there is no frost and the days are still warm and sunny. You can also plant larger shrubs and trees outside the beds, which flower at different times of the year; in fact, some shrubs are known to create a magical atmosphere in the garden, especially in winter.

When do various perennials, Flowers and shrubs Bloom?

January: snowdrops, witch hazel, snow heather, winter jasmine, Christmas rose

February: blue star, primrose, winter snowball, snowdrop, crocus, Christmas rose

March: wallflower fair lady, crocus, hyacinth, daffodil, tulips

April: wallflower fair lady, horned violet, tulips, crocus

May: bearded campion, columbine, horned violet, dyer`s woad, deadnettle

June: viper`s bugloss, bearded campion, columbine, scarlet sage, horned violet, woad, bergamot, deadnettle, delphinium

July: viper`s bugloss, helichrysum (betony), dahlia, bearded campion, scarlet sage, horned violet, delphinium, woad, wild teasel, beach lily, bergamot, verbena, deadnettle, lavender

August: wild teasel, dahlia, helichrysum (betony), scarlet sage, beach lily, bergamot, verbena, deadnettle, delphinium, lavender

September: viper`s bugloss, dahlia, scarlet sage, horned violet, beach lily, verbena, deadnettle,

October: viper`s bugloss, dahlia, scarlet sage, horned violet, verbena, deadnettle

November: dahlia, horned violet,

December: witch hazel, Christmas rose, snowball, horned violet (second flowering)

Divide the garden into different flowering periods

One bed for early bloomers, one for the warmer spring, one for summer, one for autumn and one for winter bloomers.
With this option, the whole garden may not bloom, but smaller areas or beds always do. If you supplement this type of planting with native plants and fruit and vegetables, you will have a versatile, natural garden in which you and all kinds of animals will feel at home all year round.

Early bloomers: snowdrops, crocuses, spring snowdrops, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, primroses

For spring: wallflowers, horned violets, bearded campion, columbine, deadnettle

For the summer bed: bearded campion, columbine, scarlet sage, woad, bergamot, wild teasel, betony, beach lily, delphinium, lavender

For the autumn bed:dahlia, viper`s bugloss, scarlet sage, verbena, deadnettle

For the winter bed: dahlia, horned violet. Christmas rose, spring rose, snow heather

Alternative: mix up your garden

Create different beds in which you sow hardy perennials, early bloomers, summer flowers as well as autumn and winter perennials. This will give you colourful beds that bloom from spring to the beginning of winter. You can then leave the dried out perennials to provide shelter for insects and small mammals. When it`s time to work in the garden again next year, you can remove these dried-up perennials and look forward to the perennial early bloomers and spring perennials.

Beautiful ideas for permanently colourful beds:

For sunny areas: beach lily, lavender, woad, scarlet sage, viper`s bugloss, dahlia, bearded campion

For partial shade: Wild teasel, horned violet, bergamot, helichrysum (betony), columbine

For shady areas: Monkshood, funkia, deadnettle, cranesbill, bergenia, bellflower