Winter plants worth having
Attractive and beautiful winter plants ?
Winter in your garden doesn’t have to be grey, leafless and boring. With the right planting you can make it even more attractive in winter than it is in the summer !
Evergreen
Colour
Fregrance
Tidy Gardens – Reading
Gardener in Reading
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Gardener in London
The most beautiful plant I always admire at the end of gardening season, to me surely it is “NERINE BOWDENII”
It’s colour is out of this world, especially around the grey reality of autumn.
It’s a bulb which multiplies and grows each season giving even more colour each following year.
One warning if you decide to plant it. Don’t burry it deeply. It’s bulbs need to be right at the surface.
NERINE BOWDENII in flower
NERINE BOWDENII in flower
NERINE BOWDENII and it’s bulbs
Heathers
Late autumn / winter flowers
Cyclamen
Late autumn / winter flowers
Sarcococca
Winter flowers plus berries. Black berries come with sarcococca confusa, red berries you will find on sarcococca ruscifolia.
The most amazing and sweet fragrance when you’re around them in Late December / January in the UK.
Forsythias
flowers March through April
Witch hazel
Late winter / early spring flowers
Quince
In the Uk it come give gorgeous blossom between April and May.
Cornus – dog wood
Flowers in the summer but very distinct and brightly coloured stems throught the winter make it a quite attractive winter shrub.
