Monday, 10 November 2008

Top 4 Winter garden Plants

Five of the best garden plants for instant impact in a dull winters garden.

Skimmia x confusa Kew Green


Shiny green leaves with fragrant greenish-yellow flowers. Great for under trees in partial shade, drought tolerant.








Skimmia japonica Rubella


Floppy dark green leaves. Flower heads red in bud opening to white petals and red stalks, a free flowering male form sweetly scented.






Mahonia x Media Charity

Long spiny pinnate leaves with long racemes of bright yellow fragrant flowers.







Choisya ternata Sundance


A rounded dense shrub, evergreen with bright yellow-green glossy leaves. Scented white star shaped flowers in clusters in late spring.