Are you bored with the look of your yard, now that the weather is getting colder?
Sometimes at the end of the summer, things are a bit bland in the area of landscaping, then fall arrives. The fall season is magic, what with the addition of colorful leaves, trees strutting their stuff, then dumping it on our lawns. This commonly makes things a bit bland out in the yard. We have only two things to do at this point: accept a banal looking yard or fight back with some fun color.
With the onset of winter, how can this be done, without throwing money down the drain, you ask? Well, there are many cool weather choices to add to the landscape of your yard, but one sticks out to me and with good reason.
Several years ago, I was living in Godfrey, a small town in the state of Illinois. I was just finishing up another entertaining outing of shoveling 13″ of snow off the long driveway, leading to the garage in the backyard. On my way to the back door, shovel working overtime, I hit something with the shovel that sprang back. I bent down to uncover what it was and this something was a grouping of purple and yellow pansies.
These colorful and vibrant colors jumped out at me like the headlight of an oncoming vehicle just revealing itself over the next hill. I just laughed there in the snowy silence, looking at these awesome flowers. How did they do it?
I proceeded to look into it and asked a lot of questions. It turns out that they really like cold weather. The best part of this is that they come in so many color combinations. For anyone looking to add color this time of year, even with winter heading our way very soon, try some pansies out. You just may realize that they aren’t so wimpy after all.
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