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Old 19-01-2009, 10:38 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Winter shrubs

Sacha wrote:
On 19/1/09 18:10, in article
, "Jim Scott"
wrote:

I have a £15 token to spend.
My small front garden faces NE so only gets sun early in the day.
Fuchsias do OK, hydrangia, campanula, euonimus, pieris and of course privet
too. A Japenese maple was killed by the cold wind.
I would like to introduce a couple of shrubs to flower over the winter. I
see Hebes as I move around the area, but don't know the variety.
I probably don't want anything over 100cm/3 feet tall.
Ideas please.
Note the area below.


The Sarcococcas would be good, I think and they're very highly scented.
They probably go to somewhere between 3' and 4' but you can keep many things
where you want them! Daphone odora Aureomarginata is another wonderfully
scented winter flowering plant and it's not a big thug of a thing, either.


Another vote for Daphne odora Aureomarginata. Plant Cyclamen Hedrapholia
and C. Coum underneath.

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