Pouted magazine
Aug 24, 2017 · 4 min read

Winter is often a gloomy and dark season, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Why don’t you add colors to your garden by planting any of these top 10 flowers that bloom in winter?

1 Cineraria

Cineraria can add intense colors to even the darkest corners of your garden. The plant can grow to as much as 2 feet high and wide, with the daisies that range from white to pink, and purplish red to purple and blue colors. The plant requires full or partial shade with regular water and rich and loose soil.

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2 Witch Hazel

Witch Hazels can produce rich clusters of twisted and short flowers, with colors that range from orange-red to yellow. Yellow, however, stands out as the best since red and orange tones usually blend in with a barren landscape in winter.

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8 Winter Honeysuckle

Winter honeysuckle can produce fragrant white flower clusters during late winter. It is a perfect winter plant for your garden; its mature size is as much as 10 feet wide with almost an equal height.

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7 Hellebore

The lovely blossoms of hellebore, shaped like a cup, are a true staple in almost all cold weather gardens. Rich with colors, with a height of 2 inches to as much as 2 feet, you will surely find it hard to just stick with one variety of this plant that loves both shade and moisture.

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6 Candytuft

This plant can grow to a height and width of 8 to 12 inches. Its shiny, dark, and narrow green leaves can look really well throughout the year. Its pure white flowers are carried by stems long enough for you to cut to form bouquets.

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5 Pansies

Pansies are famous for being flowers with faces, producing colorful blooms when winter season comes. Hardy in majority of growing zones, pansies can reach a mature size height of 8 inches.

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4 Ornamental Cabbage

When the lower temperatures take a plunge, the colors of this vegetable also become more vivid, while the large and lush leaves endow more texture. This one of a kind Ornamental Cabbages flaunt rich shades of green, blue, pink, purple, red, and even white.

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3 Snowdrop

Once it pops up during late winter, the bright green leaves of snowdrop signal clear and loud spring, This is especially stunning when scattered under deciduous shrubs and trees. This green and stylish plant doesn’t only look gorgeous in gardens, for it also needs no maintenance.

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2 English Daisy

The perky and plump English daisy makes a wonderful edging plant. You can also add this to your lawn for unexpected color bursts even when the cold months of winter set in.

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1 Flowering Quince

It is probably the best plant poster child for the adage of not judging a book by its cover. It is a thorny shrub during summer which comes alive during winter when it gets covered in orange-red, pink or white flowers. This is something that can surely transform any dull garden to an instant color filled space.

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