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1st Place Winter Art Winner
1st Place Winter Art Winner
Use existing plants and plant materials in your yard and around your neighbourhood. Integrate these into your winterscape by building on or around trees and shrubs, and add plant materials as decorative features in winter scenes.
If collecting plant materials, please remember to be kind to nature and your neighbours:
Recommended Reading: The Prairie Winterscape: Creative Gardening for the Forgotten Season
Building things with snow does not have to be complicated. You can use existing snow and ice formations in your yard as a base for creating your winterscape:
Recommended Reading: Snow Play (available for free for teachers from WinterCity: email front.yards@edmonton.ca)
Why should humans have all the fun? Attract some winter wildlife to your yard with a birdfeeder, a heated birdbath, or by leaving some natural areas intact where animals might find shelter and food. You could even try making your own feeders!
Add these to your garden for wildlife:
Planter containers, watering cans, lawn ornaments, benches, tables and fences can all be included in your winterscape. A watering can might come in handy as a container for collecting and displaying dried winter plants.
Consider adding a combination of attractive dried plants, boughs of evergreens or fruit-bearing branches, and even artificial sprigs of leaves or feathers for a colourful and unique winter planter.
Tips:
Add splashes of colour to your winterscape:
Adding some lights to your winterscape can brighten up your front yard at night and highlight special features. Some ideas include:
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In Edmonton: 311 Outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311 |
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