As I find my feet in the new garden, the first job has been to get some winter colour into some new tubs. For this autumn/winter I have gone for a mix of flower and foliage which I hope will see me through and bring a touch of colour as the days become grayer - and shorter.I picked up a lovely Forsythia bush in our local town fair and this warranted the purchase of a "Long Tom" Terracotta pot from the local garden center to set it off. This will bring a burst of colour in the spring but until then some very attractive violas have been added around the base.
In the round tubs I went for a matching display of a lively green small evergreen with cyclamen (nice variegated foliage when the flowers go) and winter pansies.
To draw the eye away from a long drain grill I have set out a row of window boxes combining violas, pansies and two variegated ivies. When the summer annuals finally die off other tubs will be replanted with bulbs underneath and something creative on top - possibly an evergreen tub and at that point I may look into some winter Spiraclimb cover.
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