Living where I do, you’d think I’d pay more attention to planting more things that look really good the other six months of the year. I’m always reminded of my shortcomings when I visit the Mullestein Winter Garden at Cornell Plantations.
While its ‘bones’ are way beyond my means, I would do well to focus on planting more evergreens of various shapes, sizes and hues, as well as more colorful-twigged trees and shrubs.
The basic structure of the garden is a large circular area divided into four massive raised beds with a millstone in the center.
There are nice views down the axes, but the plantings still have a very informal feel despite the hardscape’s symmetry.
Nearby plantings look pretty good too, especially captured when the sun pokes through the clouds just before setting.
Great post for a Thanksgiving morning (or any winter morning). Of course my avaricious gardener longs for something like this and started looking for a plant list on the linked Mullstein Winter Garden web page, to no avail. I too can’t afford the stone structure, or landforming, or the millstone, but I’d certainly like to incorporate more winter structure and color into my landscape. Thanks for sharing this gem.
Cornell Plantations has a new website with a plant finder. Unfortunately, you have to plug in a plant name and then it shows you where it is. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work the other way.
I’ll talk to the communications folks there sometime and mention how neat the feature you suggest might be.
Lovely garden – wish mine looked like that in the winter. I think I also need more evergreens and colorful twigs.