Around Oxford, the winter has been more wet than cold so it was a bit misleading to catch my shots for my ongoing visual survey project on a frosty morning last week:
Looking down on the back garden – January 2016
The stand of Cornus (left hand side, in front of the polytunnel) admirably do their job of maintaining a splash of colour, while the frost picks out the tracery of patterns in the tree branches the skeletons of last year’s more herbaceous plants.
Click on the picture to visit the full set for the project.