Photo Theme of the Month
Winter Garden Architecture
Each month we ask you to send us photos on a particular theme so that we can share them with fellow garden lovers at a time when they may not be able to get out and see them for themselves.
We traditionally think of winter as the quiet time in the garden, but it is arguably the most dramatic. Deciduous trees produce stunning silhouettes and bark is on show, hedges and clipped shrubs reveal crisp architectural outlines and spent seedheads of perennials and grasses provide a ghostly presence often glistening with dew or encrusted with frost.
For the month of July, we’d love to see your photos of dramatic Winter Garden Architecture – the trees, the foliage, the structure, the seedheads – they might be in your garden, a neighbour’s or friend’s garden or a public garden or park. Let’s celebrate the beauty cast by winter’s spell!
Email your photos to us in high resolution (minimum 500KB) any time in July and we’ll share the best to Instagram and Facebook.
Main image:
Sent in from Arthurs Seat, this dramatic photo hasn't been filtered in black and white, it's the garden palette for much of winter. The trees are Acacia melanoxylon.
Thumbnail images:
A splash of complementary winter color from indigenous sedge and Knobby Club Rush, Ficinia nodosa, against water tanks in a private garden in Arthur's Seat.
This photo of deciduous Australian native Melia azedarach was sent in by a follower taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne.
A bank of dried grasses against the bare branches at Cloudehill.
The beauty cast by winter's spell exposes bare branches and dramatic silhouettes at Pt Leo Estate Sculpture Park.
The seed heads of Ceratostigma are stunning against the bare branches of Smoke Bush, creating a lovely winter picture at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
Winter sun rays pierce through the morning fog, Stringy Barks, a twining rose arbor and a magnificent spider web.
The bare branches of Elm trees are silhouetted against a cotton wool sky at The Tan.