Havenwood January Garden Tour

Winter Flowers hiding under Snow Piles

Flowering Helleborus niger ‘Josef Lemper’ seen on New Year’s Day, but now under snow

“It was a happy thought to bring
To the dark season's frost and rime
This painted memory of spring,
This dream of summertime…

And she, when spring comes round again,
By greening slope and singing flood
Shall wander, seeking, not in vain
Her darlings of the wood.”

🌿 John Greenleaf Whittier, Flowers in Winter

Welcome to Havenwood in mid-January!

Our nearly one-acre garden is in northwestern Pennsylvania, zone 5/6. There are over a dozen different garden rooms in our British-style garden, so I will do my best to give you a quick walk around today to see the highlights for many of our areas.

This is a bit of a different garden tour today as since January 2nd we have been under several inches of snow with more falling each day. Our temperatures have dropped down to 0°F (-17°C) at night and our warmest days are around 28°F (-2°C). These are the moments of dramatic possibilities: either to lie prone, hunkered down under a mountain of blankets or to stride out in the elements, also bundled up to the eyeballs.

Since we did have sun and flower on New Year’s Day before the extreme bundling set in, lets begin there. Then I will show you some images of the garden in its own full, snowy garb and also what it will look like in a few months time when a white world will change into a green one. We must keep our hope up in these bleak days after all…

New Year’s Flowers

We had several little snowdrops up and blooming already in the Birch Walk. Here is the last on New Years. The Christmas Roses were up too. And best of to me right now are the buds of the Edgeworthia. The pot has now been moved into the blue potting shed that you can see in the back of the last photo for more warmth as it is tender here.

Cottage Garden

This was a lawn at the front of our property a decade ago when we came (see Beginning Havenwood), but it now includes a large garden and pergola walk.

Snow at sunset means pink sky over Havenwood.

Our Cottage Garden from the street curb garden: January and June

The Cottage Garden has a yew arch on the east end, a pergola walk on the south side, and a hornbeam boxed hedge on the western border. Here it is all shrouded in heavy snow fall last week.

The Pergola Walk: January and June with Wisteria 'Amethyst Falls'

Birch Walk

The Birch Walk: January with snow & May with Summer Snowflakes

The Bird Garden

In the back of our home we have our newest garden, the Bird Garden. It is still a work in progress, but the old crabapple tree is one of our neighborhood birds’ favorite sanctuaries so we have a good thing to start with.

The Bird Garden has our "snow goose" topiary at the foot of our crabapple tree. Here it is when the snow was coming down in drifts that we call a "white out" as we cannot see the neighbor's houses in the back. When it clears up, you can see the same view has much better visibility a couple of hours later.

This photo shows the perennial planting at the foot of the crabapple tree in June.

The Kitchen Garden

The Kitchen Garden in January: tulips, garlic, rhubarb, asparagus and onion seeds all covered in snow.

The Kitchen Garden in January.

The Kitchen Garden in August.

The greenhouse with the tulip pots this week in the Kitchen Garden

The Woodland Garden

About half of our one-acre property is woodland, making a wonderful for Woodland Gardens with long shady walks that will soon be full of spring flowers.

The entrance to the Primrose Path in the Woodland Garden: January and June

The Primrose Path in May

Sunrise over the Woodland Garden in January

Sunset in the Woodland Garden in January. These are always the best sunsets of the year!

Thanks for stopping for a chilly walk around Havenwood this month!

Thanks to Carol for instigating this tour with her GBBD!

What is blooming in your garden this month?

More about the Garden Rooms at Havenwood:

• The Cottage Garden

• The Birch Walk

• The Fruit Tunnel

• The Garden Pond & Bogs

• St Francis Garden

• Iris Bed

• Beginning Havenwood

• The Long Border

Related posts:

Notes from Havenwood

The Cottage Garden

Garden Classes for Your Garden Dreams

Merry Christmas!