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Old 27-08-2003, 08:12 PM
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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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Old 28-08-2003, 03:02 AM
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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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Old 28-08-2003, 03:32 AM
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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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Old 28-08-2003, 05:02 AM
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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
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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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Old 28-08-2003, 08:42 AM
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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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Old 28-08-2003, 08:02 PM
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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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Old 28-08-2003, 08:32 PM
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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!


Things to consider for winter gardens:

1) Evergreens that look much the same year round. This should perhaps be
lower on the list than #1, since the greatest winter plants are the ones
that have a uniqueness rather than sameness in winter, but evergreens
should also be an important part of the array. This does not just mean
shrubs & trees. When selecting ferns, for instance, consider that the
swordfern & deerfern & Japanese tassel fern don't need to be sheered back
until spring (if then) & are better choices than many other wonderful
ferns which however disappear in winter.

2) Deciduous plants with excellent "form" when without leaves. Corkscrew
hazel is prettiest in winter (plus it blooms golden catkins in winter). A
well-aged climbing hydrangea reveals bright orange furry limb-vines in
winter. Weeping deciduous shrubs look fascinating when leafless.
Ornamental beech trees & Japanese maples commonly have mottled bark.
Shrubs with bark that exfoliate in winter are of particular interest.

3) Decuduous shrubs like Redtwig dogwood or Hishiki willow with twigs that
turn bright colors in winter.

4) Winter bloomers like Dawn Viburnum, Witch Hazel, Carnellian cherry,
winter honeysuckle (L. fragrantissima), many primulas, hepatica,
rhododendron cultivars that bloom in March (Karin Seliger & Milestone for
examples), late-winter blooming crocus varieties, kaffir lilies,
cyclamens, hellebores, laurustinus, galanthus, & so on. Many shrub salvias
when grown in the Northwest bloom all through winter then go dormant in
spring, starting over near summer -- such as the salvia cultivar "Santa
Barbara."

5) Plants with red, orange, black, violet, or white berries that cling to
the branches through winter, including many kinds of cotoneasters,
nandina, snowberry, chokeberry, Japanese holly, hawthorns, pernettya, or
the black winter berry-like seeds of black mondo grass. Many others.
Here's a gallery of some winter berries:
http://www.paghat.com/winterberries1.html

6) Evergreens with leaves that turn great colors in winter, like PJM &
Stewartstonia rhododendrons, Stransvesia, select varieties of heucheras,
bunchberries, Algerian ivy, &c &c.

7) Many perennials though not really active in winter do have some winter
presence. Many perennials though dormant in winter nevertheless have
evergreen basal leaves, so there's at least a moderate presence, as with
many species of penstemons, moth mulleins, millfoil, verbascum, or chinese
foxglove. Several kinds of lilies & a few kinds of irises have fully
evergreen grassy blades. Garden-hardy fuchsias are evergreen through
winter though usually needing clipping way back before new spring growth.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/
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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

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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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