Gardens for the winter

To get colour in your garden add winter flowering plants such as hellebores which are the best of all winter flowering herbaceous plants. Plant in a shaded area with snowdrops and Ires reticulate cultivars, they create a wonderful sight in your garden.

Other ways of creating colour is with bark and stems of trees and shrubs, examples of these are white barked birches such as betula utilis var. and the Tibetan cherry prunus serrula which has cinnamon coloured bark. All with peeling bark will enhance your winter garden.

What to plant in November

It is now the time to plant tulip bulbs. Some tulips do well year to year, some perform less well and are treated as bedding, and replaced every year.
This is now the last chance to plant out winter bedding. Such as wallflowers, forget-me-nots, Primula, Viola and other spring plants, planting them into well prepared ground, or pots of suitable compost.

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