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Hello all! I live in the Pacific NW and was wondering if any gardeners
around here can recommend some winter plants to bring some cheer to my garden during November through May. Paghats website has been very helpful concerning winter berries, crocuses, and other things. Just wondering if anyone else had some tips! Thanks for your help! |
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Hi, could you provide the url for Paghats website? I did a search on
it and came up with nothing. I also live in the Pacific region -- Vancouver, British Columbia, and I'm trying to collect flowering fall and winter plants, like you. I just purchased some frost-hardy "tropicals" which I'm hoping will flower most of the year, along with the fall-flowering crocuses, pansies, some new fall irises and some fall-flowering shrubs, like the Red Prince weigela. Deborah "Jessica" wrote in message ... Hello all! I live in the Pacific NW and was wondering if any gardeners around here can recommend some winter plants to bring some cheer to my garden during November through May. Paghats website has been very helpful concerning winter berries, crocuses, and other things. Just wondering if anyone else had some tips! Thanks for your help! |
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Jessica wrote: Hello all! I live in the Pacific NW and was wondering if any gardeners around here can recommend some winter plants to bring some cheer to my garden during November through May. Paghats website has been very helpful concerning winter berries, crocuses, and other things. Just wondering if anyone else had some tips! Thanks for your help! There are scores of winter interest plants available for our climate and most good garden centers should carry a wide selection. You might also want to check out some books that address this subject: 'Winter Ornamentals' by Dan Hinkley is an excellent reference; Christopher Lloyd's 'Gardening Year' and Ann Lovejoy's 'The Year In Bloom' are helpful as well. Both Hinkley and Lovejoy are local gardening celebrities and authors. Some of my favorite winter interest plants are the following: Camellia sasanqua Sarcococca Witch hazels Winterhazel and wintersweet Mahonia x media cultivars Helleborus Rubus calcynoides Wintergreen Epimedium grandiflorum and rubrum (reliably evergreen with winter coloration) any cotoneaster evergreen grasses and their like, like Carex ssp, mondo grass, Phormiums, etc. red and yellow twig dogwoods Stewartia pseudocamellia (bark) Acer grisseum (bark) winter daphne nearly any dwarf conifer and of course the winter interest offered by assorted herbaceous perennials like ornamental grasses, sedums, coneflowers, etc. In this mild climate, if one doesn't address planting for winter, you are missing out on a whole bunch of great plant material, year round. pam - gardengal |
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I'm in zone 7 and there are many varieties of decorative grasses that
grow well. I have a giant striped grass that is tassling this week that will remain decorative during the winter. Most need sun, easy to grow in Pac NW. Pansies are often planted in fall for winter blooms and I have seen forsythia bloom in January in partly shaded areas. Onions, garlic, parsley, thyme, oregano, sage, lavender are good winter plants. If you have the space, a dwarf pine tree or conifer. On 27 Aug 2003 17:53:25 -0700, (Deborah) wondered: "Jessica" wrote in message ... Hello all! I live in the Pacific NW and was wondering if any gardeners around here can recommend some winter plants to bring some cheer to my garden during November through May. Paghats website has been very helpful concerning winter berries, crocuses, and other things. Just wondering if anyone else had some tips! Thanks for your help! |
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In article , Pam
wrote: Some of my favorite winter interest plants are the following: Camellia sasanqua Sarcococca Witch hazels Winterhazel and wintersweet Mahonia x media cultivars Helleborus Rubus calcynoides Wintergreen Epimedium grandiflorum and rubrum (reliably evergreen with winter coloration) any cotoneaster evergreen grasses and their like, like Carex ssp, mondo grass, Phormiums, etc. red and yellow twig dogwoods Stewartia pseudocamellia (bark) Acer grisseum (bark) winter daphne nearly any dwarf conifer and of course the winter interest offered by assorted herbaceous perennials like ornamental grasses, sedums, coneflowers, etc. In this mild climate, if one doesn't address planting for winter, you are missing out on a whole bunch of great plant material, year round. pam - gardengal for easy-to-grow, lovely winter foliage, i'd add: Euphorbia characias ssp. Wulfenii Heuchera (lots of great colors available) heaths and heathers sam z8/pnw |
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I think its paghat.com. Her site is wonderful, full of information. Learned
a lot there! "Deborah" wrote in message om... Hi, could you provide the url for Paghats website? I did a search on it and came up with nothing. I also live in the Pacific region -- Vancouver, British Columbia, and I'm trying to collect flowering fall and winter plants, like you. I just purchased some frost-hardy "tropicals" which I'm hoping will flower most of the year, along with the fall-flowering crocuses, pansies, some new fall irises and some fall-flowering shrubs, like the Red Prince weigela. Deborah "Jessica" wrote in message ... Hello all! I live in the Pacific NW and was wondering if any gardeners around here can recommend some winter plants to bring some cheer to my garden during November through May. Paghats website has been very helpful concerning winter berries, crocuses, and other things. Just wondering if anyone else had some tips! Thanks for your help! |
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Jessica, here are a few more plants to consider for our region in the
winter. I've just purchased these from local nurseries here in British Columbia, so they are definitely suitable for our zone: GREVILLEA Canberra Gem Bushy, wide, evergreen shrub with narrow, pointed, dark green leaves. Bright pink and red spider-like flowers produced over a long period. A cross between G. juniperina and G. rosmarinifolia. Sun. Flower:Pinky Red; Late Winter - Summer. 2 m (7'). Zone:8 PIERIS japonica FLAMING SILVER (Lily of the Valley Shrub) Striking, variegated leaves with bright red, new foliage edged with pink then turning silver-white. Waxy, bell-like flowers in long hanging clusters. Evergreen. Sun or part-shade. Acid, moist, well-drained soil. Flower: White; Mar-May. 1.2 m (4'). Zone:6 Someone already mentioned Nandina....I happened to purchase one yesterday because it was one of the most beautiful shrubs I've seen. Mine is Nandina domestica "Firepower" -- it's an evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves, leaves which glow red in winter. Right now, it is a multitude of colors along with the pretty green. I also purchased a gorgeous "Heavenly Bamboo" that looks like a very small tree right now. It has bamboolike stems with delicate lacy leaflets that start pinkish to bronzy red, then turn soft green. It acquires purple to bronze tints in the fall, then turns rich red in early winter. Right now it also has white summer flowers which will be followed by red berries. Deborah "Jessica" wrote in message ... I think its paghat.com. Her site is wonderful, full of information. Learned a lot there! "Deborah" wrote in message om... Hi, could you provide the url for Paghats website? I did a search on it and came up with nothing. I also live in the Pacific region -- Vancouver, British Columbia, and I'm trying to collect flowering fall and winter plants, like you. I just purchased some frost-hardy "tropicals" which I'm hoping will flower most of the year, along with the fall-flowering crocuses, pansies, some new fall irises and some fall-flowering shrubs, like the Red Prince weigela. Deborah "Jessica" wrote in message ... Hello all! I live in the Pacific NW and was wondering if any gardeners around here can recommend some winter plants to bring some cheer to my garden during November through May. Paghats website has been very helpful concerning winter berries, crocuses, and other things. Just wondering if anyone else had some tips! Thanks for your help! |
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