Winter is not far from it the richest season, the vacuum was installed and the gray (this year partliculier) covers all the opulence of the spring season of roses and I love the abundance of summer perennials that provide the show are far away. However, in the heart of winter some plants, mostly shrubs offer a dazzling often fragrant flowers. I have a taste for these blooms winter to both amazing and admirable and what of their strong fragrance always very comforting.
Each year, after being forgotten for many months, I was busy to devote myself to other plants in my gardens, I rediscovered with wonder e t happiness. It always gives me a renewed enthusiasm and forget the drops of transient regime. And winter is enjoyable as the garden, very active in this season, lets his mind wander and engaged in contemplation and reverie .
Obviously, these blooms can be programmed, it must know how to wait patiently and sometimes one is surprised Thus, the winter honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) intoxicating fragrance and covered buttons do still gives me some flowers, two weeks later than last year, but whatever. Its fragrance is exceptional .
The Darley heath are very flowery for many weeks and will probably probably until April.
Helleborus Orient, so refined and delicate normally hatch in March in my garden, yet they have numerous flowers open .
For Christmas roses, the opposite, they have bloomed later, it is not my favorite, I find their stems really too short.
witch hazel is also starting to blossom, with one month in advance, but the bloom seems a little less abundant than in 2010 and I think that it would end before the month of March. This beautiful flowering less is it due to excessive force (he has pushed a lot), drought of last summer or the softness of the moment? I can not explain it.
Skimmia rubella still shows red buttons in March the tiny white flowers with a delicious orange scent will delight bees.
Camelia and Daphne odora, two carefree shrubs, will I believe their promises, unless the late winter and early spring is very wet This happens more for a good ten years in my area (a sign of climate change?), flowering will be very beautiful.
In the grove of winter-flowering shrubs, Oregon grape completes its flowering, Bodnant viburnum and chimonanthe are always in bloom, dogwood male will take over in March.
will need to complete this collection that I think about planting sarcoccoca if flowering and especially so powerfully scented clematis and a few winter.
© My Planet Garden, 01/2011
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