Gardening Tips: The 6 best February flowering plants for your winter garden
Gardening Tips: The 6 best February flowering plants for your winter garden
February is a quiet month in the garden. But even in this, what is often the coldest and dreariest month of the year, there are signs of life starting toThe ever-popular Galanthus will be out in force in February, heralding the end of winter and the promise of spring just around the corner. Snowdrops are extremely hardy, despite their delicate appearance. They will grow in most soils and they prefer light shade to full sun.
emerge and the first faint stirrings of the coming spring. Look out for the first flowers braving the cold weather as the garden begins to reinvent itself.
SNOWDROP
The ever-popular Galanthus will be out in force in February, heralding the end of winter and the promise of spring just around the corner. Snowdrops are extremely hardy, despite their delicate appearance. They will grow in most soils and they prefer light shade to full sun.
Large drifts of naturalised snowdrops create a real impact, resembling a carpet of snow on the ground. They brighten up dark soil under trees too.
CAMELLIA ‘ELEGANS
This is a very popular late winter-flowering shrub. Camellia ‘Elegans’ has beautiful deep pink double flowers that look spectacular when the rest of the garden is still in the depths of winter. |
All camellias need neutral or acid soil so use ericaceous compost when planting in a container. Camellia will tolerate shade, but avoid an east-facing position. Emerging buds will need protection from extremely cold weather fronts.
DAPHNE BHOLUA ‘JACQUELINE POSTILL’
This is an upright evergreen shrub that produces delightful fragrant pink and white flowers during late winter and early spring. It is a slow-growing shrub that hardly ever needs pruning. |
ROSEBUD CHERRY – PRUNUS X SUBHIRTELLA ‘AUTUMNALIS ROSEA’
This wonderful cherry actually blossoms on and off from November right through to March – something unique among ornamental cherries. It is a small deciduous tree, growing to between 4 and 8 metres, that creates fabulous displays of pale pink flowers throughout the winter season.
This tree makes a wonderful central feature in the garden, providing green foliage through spring and summer, turning yellow in autumn, and then brightening your garden with colour through the coldest months. Give it full sun and it will be happy in any well-drained soil.
CROCUS SIEBERI ‘VIOLET QUEEN’
These purple and yellow, goblet-shaped beauties are one of the first crocuses to flower, bringing some much needed late winter colour. Wonderful in beds and rock gardens, but they naturalise very easily under lawns too.
Give them full sun or light shade and any well-drained soil. They are perennials, but they do need to be planted in autumn. If grown in your lawn, you will need to refrain from mowing the area for 6 weeks after the crocuses bloom, or they will not come back the following year as the cormlets will be underdeveloped.
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