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Plants for Winter Interest
Plants for Winter Interest Tired of winter blahs! Try some plants to zip it up a little. Not everything has to be brown or barren. There are plenty of plants to spice up the winter beside your evergreens. Up here in the Pacific Northwest, we have a Zone 7-8 climate. The plants I mention here will grow in this area. You will want to check the labels to see if they will where you are. (By the way, we share Zone 8 with northern Florida) Some of my favorites include the winter blooming heathers. There are a wide variety of heathers that bloom in shades of white, red and pink. Some other heathers that bloom in summer or autumn have beautiful foliage that takes on colors of red, mahogany and yellow. The hellebores are favorites of mine and bloom in winter through spring. Other varieties bloom in spring. They are fairly hardy plants with mostly nodding blooms in shades of white, pink, red and deep purple. Some are double flowered. They are a great winter blooming flower for the garden. They can take sun as long as it does not get too hot, although I have seen some in full sun doing well. The witchazel is a wonderful small sized tree that blooms from January through March. Mine has tassle shaped flowers in a bright yellow. Other varieties are orange. In addition to providing beauty, some winter flowering shrubs also provide fragrance. The Sarcacoca, which blooms in January, is a small evergreen shrub with very tiny fringe-like flowers with the most fragrant flowers imaginable. I have smelled ours from our back yard across the street. Another fragrant winter bloomer is the daphne odora. It blooms later and also has very fragrant flowers. Of, course, all the berry bearing shrubs provide winter interest. You know about the holly with its brilliant red berries. But also consider, the evergreen shrub Nandina (or Heavenly Banboo) which has bamboo like branches with delicate evergreen leaves and beautiful red berries in winter. Or, check out the snowberry - a native shrub of the Northwest that hides on the edge of the forest and has white berries in winter. Of course, the Beauty Berry is just that....A wonderful shrub with neon purple berries in winter. A large variety of grasses will turn brown in fall, but remain erect to add interest to your garden in winter. Likewise, some sedums will dry and maintain their seed-heads for both beauty and feeding the birds. So you see, you can have flowers and fragrance all year if you just know what to plant. These are a few of the plants that grow in our area, check out your local nursery or the Extension for plants that provide winter interest in your area. |
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