Winter garden

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A winter garden is a kind of garden maintained in wintertime.

History

The origin of the winter garden dates back to the 17th to 19th centuries where European nobility would construct large

Present

The modern winter garden is usually a garden planted either to produce food, or at least to remain visibly planted and slowly develop, throughout the winter, or else a garden whose plants will serve as living decoration all winter. One basic premise, in temperate or colder regions, to the winter garden is that the plants may indeed become dormant when snow covers the ground, but will grow each time the sun heats at least part of the plant to above freezing (snow or not), especially in regions where snow cover and below-freezing temperatures are not constant for months at a time.

Vegetables that are typically, or can be, used in a winter garden include:

• Several breeds of
  winter-hardy
  cabbage
• Specific winter-hardy breeds of broccoli
• Winter rye
  is grown where a summer garden will be, in order to protect the ground from weeds, and provide soil amendment when tilled directly into the soil the following spring
• beets
• carrots
• alliums—onions, chives, and their relatives are evergreen, though some may die back during the winter and recover in the spring.
• oregano (including marjoram) -- known to hardily survive the winter up to Zone 5

See also

• Greenhouse
• Hardiness zone
• Winter sowing

References

External links

• Underneath the arches The Guardian on Sheffield's public winter garden
• Up From the Ashes Collection