The 21 best plants for winter
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Heather
Winter-flowering heather is a great plant for low-growing texture. It also looks fantastic in pots. It comes with different colours pink, white and purple flowers.
Japanese quince
Also known as Chaenomeles, this is a hardy woody shrub with thorny branches that bears cup-shaped flowers in winter and early spring.
Winter aconites
These have lovely yellow flowers and are suited to growing underneath deciduous trees and shrubs. They prefer rich, moist soil.
Pansies
Winter-flowering pansies are a gardener’s staple – ideal for filling pots and window boxes for a flash of colour to be seen from indoors.
Cyclamen
Cyclamen are winter heroes that can be brought to flower from autumn to spring. The flowers come in red, pink and white shades and look fantastic in pots or planted under trees.
Helleborus
Hellebores are often known as the Christmas Rose because they can flower in midwinter. Look out for H. Orientalis varieties in white, green and even dark red.
Dogwood
Cornus is a small woody shrub grown for its colourful bare stems in winter. Look for C. alba sibirica for red stems and C. sericea ‘Flaviramea’ for yellow bark.
Viburnum
There is a huge range of viburnum plants for winter colour. Look out for evergreen varieties like V. tinus and V. burkwoodii. Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ is also brilliant with strongly scented pink flowers.
Witch hazel
Witch hazel is grown for the wiry flowers it bears along the branches. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Diane’ has red flowers, ‘Jelena’ is coppery coloured and ‘Pallida’ is best for yellow.
Mahonia
A stunning range of evergreen shrubs commonly known as barberry. They bear sunny yellow flower spires above rich green leaves.
Winter-flowering cherry
Prunus subhirtella autumnalis is an ornamental cherry tree that bears pale pink flowers from late autumn to early spring.
Snowdrops
Snowdrops can be the first flowers to open in the new year and grow happily under trees and shrubs. Look for Galanthus nivalis for a woodland style and elegant G. ‘Magnet’ for flowers that dance in the breeze.
Winter jasmine
Winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) is a scrambling plant with yellow star-shaped leaves that can be trained easily with wires or trellis as a climber. Perfect for archways or just scrambling over low walls.
Daffodils
Some daffodils come up so early they can bloom in winter. Look out for Narcissus ‘Rijnveld’s Early Sensation’ from January onwards, and ‘February Gold’ that flowers slightly later.
Crocus
Crocus flowers are a sign that winter is fading and spring is coming. Their upright, cup-shaped flowers look great in pots and borders and poking up among the lawn.
Chionodoxa
The glory of the Snow can flower even when there is snow on the ground. Grow C. luciliae for star-shaped blue or pink flowers with white centres.
Daphne
This shrub has intensely fragrant flowers in winter and early spring. Look for D. odora and D. bholua and grow near gates and doorways.
Clematis cirrhosa
Cirrhosis is a winter-flowering evergreen clematis. C. cirrhosa var. purparescens ‘Freckles’ flowers first with creamy bell-shaped flowers and speckled petals. Also, try the Mallorcan C. cirrhosis var. Balearica.
Iris unguicularis
Also known as the Algerian iris, these plants produce perfumed violet flowers with yellow and white patterns.
Skimmia japonica
These are evergreen shrubs that produce panicles of creamy flowers and red berries. You need a male and female variety for berries – ask your supplier.
Sarcococca
The sweet box is well-named. Its intense fragrance can be detected from across the garden. It produces tiny perfumed creamy flowers in winter followed by shiny black berries.
Even more winter garden colour ideas
Evergreens don’t have to be green! Look for unusual leaf colour like blue spruce, Juniper Blue Star or yellow and gold conifers. Frilly pink ornamental cabbages look great in containers while photinia and eponymous light up borders.
You can also try berrying shrubs like holly, cotoneaster and pyracantha.
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