Winter Flowering Plants
The Most Beautiful Winter Flowering Plants
Winter flowering plants can make your yard and garden look colorful and lush, especially during the winter months. They are a beautiful blend of colors and variations of styles; perfect for your flower garden and exquisite to look at.
The following are some of the most beautiful winter flowering plants.
- Wintersweet
- These beautiful small, sweetly-scented, sulfur-yellow flowers have a stained purple color on the inside giving it an elegant look. The flowering period is from December to February.
- Daphne
- Daphnes are small cluster of pink flowers that bloom from bright purple buds. They bloom in December and usually keep their luster throughout March.
- Witch Hazel
- There are a number of witch Hazel flowers that bloom throughout the winter months.
- Chinese Witch Hazel – Hamamelis Mollis
- These bright yellow, sweetly scented, spidery flowers cling to bare twigs like clusters of small flowers. Flowering period is between December to February.
- Hamamelis x intermedia Pallida
- This winter shrub offers clusters of sulfur-yellow flowers; make sure to see this beauty in the fall when the bright green leaves turn red, yellow, and orange. It flowers from December to February.
- Hamamelis x intermedia Diane
- This witch hazel shrub gives away rich coppery-red flowers that cling to bare twigs. They are a sweet smelling flower whose leaves also turns colors during the autumn months. Flowering time is January to February.
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Mahonia
- There are two types of Mahonia
- Mahonia Japonica - Very slender, spiked yellow flower that appears in November. Rosettes of gorgeous, dark green, holly-like leaves gives this shrub just what it needs to make the perfect winter flowering plant.
- Mahonia x media Charity – Another set of yellow flowers that are slender in size, this Mahonia also carries with it rosettes of beautiful, dark green, holly-like leaves.
- Viburnum
- Dark pink flowers on bare stems, these beauties usually lay in a dense cluster, with dark green leaves. Flowering is from November to March.
- Viburnum has at least 9 different variations, so you have a variety of choices if you are picking a Viburnum. Viburnum x burkwoodii, viburnum opulus roseum, and viburnum tinus french white are all variations that offer beautiful white flowers, two as pom-pom flowers and one that is a flat flower that resemble baby's breath.
- The Viburnum davidii offers a beautiful blue flower with red stems, a gorgeous flower that will brighten up any winters day.
- Camellia
- A glorious white, peony-shaped, flower with delicate yellow that centers next to deep green leaves. This evergreen shrub is one of the earliest blooming Camellia.
- Winter flowering Heathers
- This flower plays no games when it comes to making a multitude of white, urn shaped flowers. A spectacular breed of flower that has four hot pink flowers or one that offers a yellow flower. Flowers January through March.
- Winter Jasmine
- Beauty cannot come close to the flower that comes out of the winter jasmine. It contains the most cheerful yellow flower you’ll ever see. The flower loves to grow, therefore it needs to be trained for it to grow right. Flowering period – January through March.
- Mimosa
- Extremely fluffy, yellow, ball-shaped flowers, looks like an evergreen tree with a pale green trunk and feathery leaves. Flowers from January to April.
- Clematis
- Elegant large, cream-colored, flowers that are bell-shaped with deep green leaves retained all year long. Flowers from December to February.
These are some of the best winter flowering plants out there today, which are judged by their beauty, ease of care, and shapes of the flowers themselves.