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dd a little holiday sparkle to
your landscape for you and
your guests to enjoy. No mat-
ter the weather outside, a few
decorative touches can
greatly increase the beauty and enjoyment
of your winter landscape.
Try one, two or all eight of these tips to
improve your landscape’s winter appeal.
Add some solar powered accents.
Light
a pathway, your favorite tree or front porch
without installing additional outlets. Look
for unique colors and shapes like the solar
star lantern or the changing colors of north-
ern lights spheres (gardeners.com) for
added appeal. The wide variety now avail-
able can help create a memorable winter
display. Be sure to select solar accents that
provide hours of enjoyment when fully
charged.
Create an outdoor holiday tree for you
and your feathered visitors to enjoy.
Dec-
orate a few of your evergreen trees and
shrubs with purchased or homemade bird-
seed ornaments. Holiday shapes made of
energy rich birdseed and suet give the trees
a holiday flare, while providing important
food for birds to enjoy. These also make
great gifts for your favorite gardener or bird
watcher.
Light up your winter containers.
Fill a
weather-proof planter with potting mix or
play sand. Purchase greens from your fa-
vorite garden center or trim a few from your
landscape.
Stick the cut end of the greens in the pot-
ting mix or sand to create an attractive dis-
play. Add some colorful berries, decorative
twigs and ribbon. Then add some height and
light to your winter container with fiber
optic solar lights. Place the container by
your front steps for holiday visitors to enjoy
day or night.
Increase color and motion with the
help of heated birdbaths.
Attract greater
numbers and variety of birds by providing
water year round.
Northern gardeners should consider
heated birdbaths to insure water is available
even during the coldest months. Further
help the birds by adding a few stones or
branches to the birdbath.
This allows the birds to drink without
getting wet; helping them to preserve their
body heat.
Create your own homemade outdoor
lights.
Line pathways, accent plantings or
dress up fence posts with ice globe luminar-
ies. Produce your own or purchase ready to
make kits.
Use colorful outdoor LED lights or tea
candles to light up blocks or spheres of ice.
You and your family will have fun creating
these memorable nighttime accents.
Add some livable art.
Hang a few color-
ful and unique birdhouses in your backyard.
They provide color and whimsy to the win-
ter garden and will be ready for your feath-
ered friends to move in this spring.
Include a “gingerbread” house for the
birds.
Hang decorative birdseed houses
from a shepherds crook or tree branch. Be
sure to place it in an area where you and the
birds can enjoy the decorative treat. Look
for a sheltered, but open area where the
birds can watch for predators while enjoy-
ing their winter feast.
Move your holiday tree outdoors.
Place
your cut tree in a snow bank, vacant spot in
the garden or make it part of your bird feed-
ing station.
The tree provides some extra greenery in
the often drab winter landscape as well as
shelter for the visiting birds. Then add a few
of those birdseed ornaments for added food
and winter decoration.
(Gardening expert, TV/radio host, author
& columnist Melinda Myers has more than
30 years of horticulture experience and has
written over 20 gardening books, including
Can’t Miss Small Space Gardening. She
hosts The Great Courses “How to Grow
Anything” DVD series and the nationally
syndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment seg-
ments. Myers is also a columnist and con-
tributing editor for Birds & Blooms
magazine. Myers’ web site,
damyers.com, offers gardening videos and
tips.)
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