It’s time!
Winter is just about to peek into your garden, bringing a beautiful white blanket with it! Besides the cloudy days and cold temperatures that come with winter, this season is actually a lot of fun.
You have lots of holidays to celebrate with your family, and you’ll finally be able to rest after all those gardening tasks you’ve done! It’s been a fun year, right?
But before closing that chapter, you can still grow some stunning plants! Your garden can be filled with color even in winter. I discovered adorable winter flowers last year that made a cheerful display throughout the colder months!
Do you also want to replace the boring look in your garden this winter? Then you should take a look at these four amazing plants that you can grow in winter!
#1 Pair Pansies And Violas For Winter Magic
Combining these two adorable flowers in pots will give your garden a colorful display during winter! Pansies have large yellow, gold, and purple flowers, while violas have more abundant blooms that come in purple, blue, white, or yellow.
They prefer cooler temperatures, so these two won’t be happy if left in direct sunlight for too long. Partial sun seems to work best for these plants! You’ll need to water them every two to three days. Pansies and violas thrive best in soil that is consistently moist.
#2 A Pretty Sweet Box Will Bring Vanilla Fragrance Into Your Winter Garden
Do you love perfume that smells like vanilla? Now imagine every corner of your garden smelling just like that!
You can make that possible by growing sweet box (even its name sounds like some expensive, good-smelling perfume). It has tiny white flowers adorned with leathery green leaves!
Sweet box prefers part to full shade areas in your garden. You can water these plants every nine days. Before watering, make sure that the soil is completely dry!
#3 Sneak Japanese Skimmia Into Your Containers To Light Up Darker Areas
Your shaded part of the garden can sometimes look lonely. Most plants usually require at least a little sunlight! Well, there are some lovely shrubs called Japanese skimmia that can add a pop of color to your shady areas.
Japanese skimmia have oval-shaped green leaves with pinkish-reddish buds that later transform into white flowers! Even though their red berries look attractive and edible, they aren’t. These berries are actually very poisonous, so be careful!
Japanese skimmia grows best in containers that are placed in the shady part of your garden. Avoid growing these shrubs in the sun because it can cause yellow leaves! Water your skimmias every one to two weeks.
#4 For a Dramatic Touch, Choose Hellebores
Have you already started with the Christmas decorations? Same here! I enjoy preparing my house for the holidays! There’s something special about it. Besides decorating your home, your garden will also need some sprucing up!
The best way to do so is to plant hellebores (also known as Christmas roses) in your pots. They come in beautiful colors such as white and dusky plum. You’ll be able to enjoy their lovely petals even when covered with snow!
You can place your Christmas roses in light shade, which is the best spot for them! As for watering, you can do it once a week.
These eye-catching winter plants will give your garden a beautiful landscape all winter long! The best part about these plants is that you don’t have to worry about whether the frost will cause damage.
You don’t even need to have a large garden to grow them, they will thrive perfectly in your pots outside. Well, I just finished planting these charming plants in my pots, and I think that now it’s your turn! Choose your favorite one and make your garden stand out this winter.
Good luck!