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Best of Flea Market Winter garden designs

To celebrate the Winter season, we’ve collected some of the most inspiring “Winter” photos ever posted here on our page in three years.

An icy driveway to Debra Clark’s place. See the spiral?

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
to watch his woods fill up with snow…
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
but I have promises to keep, and
miles to go before I sleep, and
miles to go before I sleep.

                              ~ Robert Frost

 

The Little Shop Antiques snowy wonderland

 

What your Winter garden wardrobe needs Is a pop of color!

Barb Brashier effectively uses colored lights to jazz up her snowy garden dining arbor

 

Jill Waltenspiel’s frosty rose

“We are given memories so that we might have roses in December.”
–   J. M. Barrie

 

Jeannie Rhodes’s snowy garden bed. Were there really flowers here?

Frosty-white and cold it lies
Underneath the fretful skies;
Snowflakes flutter where the red
Banners of the poppies spread,
And the drifts are wide and deep
Where the lilies fell asleep.

                                  Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

Susie Blair captures a fiery Winter sunset

A Winter Sunset
The frosty sky, like a furnace burning,
The keen air, crisp and cold,
And a sunset that splashes the clouds with gold
But my heart to summer turning.

                                Lord Alfred Douglas

 

Marie Niemann’s rust and snow. Looks good, huh?

“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory…”
― John Geddes

Connie Dee Schnecker’s fairy garden, crystalline white in Winter. She says, These hens & chicks live through the coldest of winters!”

In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .
But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.”
― Vera Nazarian

 

Walking Darby Miller’s path requires a warm and cozy wool scarf.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

                                     Robert Frost

Pam Cunningham’s frosty garden archway. Would you walk this way?

 

Aunt Pritty’s patio set waits through the icy Winter for its next occupants.

 

Frosty Winter whites

Is your garden as attractive in the snow as it is in the summer? Four tips!

Cathy Wanderaas,…”My swing set arbor clothed in frosty attire.”

TIP #1 – Make your winter garden visible from inside your house.

Debra Clark noticed the frosty designs on her cultivator wheels in this excellent Wintery photograph

TIP #2 – Put your winter garden close enough to your house to see the details of it from inside.

Linda Gladman’s Winter bicycle vignette. She says, “We woke up to a beautiful winter wonderland this morning … a wooden birdhouse cat hangs from the arbor”

TIP #3 – Emphasize the areas that you walk through in the winter.

Lark Kulikowski’s pops of color,…perfect accent for a snowy day

TIP #4– Choose some color to stand out against a bare landscape.

George Weaver’s neighbor plows a foggy field

 

Jeanne Sammons’s barnwood door collects snowy designs as flakes fall

 

Kirk Willis’s Mason jar birdfeeder, stacked with snow

 

Lark Kulikowski’s pop of blue!

More about lark:  Lark’s wild ways with upcycled garden art

Nancy K. Meyer’s brilliant Winter collage, a favorite!

 

More fun!

Make your own snowflake!  Find a child and make a snowflake to save or send!  Or make one of your own…I did!

 


Sue Langley

Sue Langley, a passionate gardener and photographer lives and gardens with her husband and Corgi, Maggie on 7 acres just south of Yosemite, Zone 7 at 3000 feet. She manages the Flea Market Gardening Facebook page and website.

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  • I have never seen snow in person, and now that I'm in my 60's, don't think I can handle it! These photos are just so breathtakingly beautiful, I think I might just have to make a winter vacation up north someday soon! Thank you for sharing all of them, and Happy New Year!

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