Gardens are usually "put to bed" in autumn and left to rest, often under a blanket of snow. Where I live winter provides its own kind of garden joy. The tiny berries that remain on flowering crab apples provide a bright red against the snow as well as food for the birds that stay through the cold. Sumac and grasses that bend but are not buried add yellows and rust colors to the white landscape. Seed pods, and rose hips shriveled and waiting for the spring rattle on branches reminding us that the winter won't last forever. A wintery garden is beautiful in its promise of things to come.
Elderberry
Huckleberry
