Winter Garden

You are seated outside in a beautiful garden in the winter. You are comfortable in layers of clothing and are sipping a cup of hot chocolate. The air is crisp. The water in the fountain is frozen. The branches and ground are covered in frost. Birds of all shapes and sizes flutter down from the tress as you scatter seeds for them to eat. They call to each other signaling mealtime. A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens.. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden.