Winter
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Plant Guide‘HGC Pink Frost’ hellebore
Helleborus × ballardiae ‘HGC Pink Frost’‘HGC Pink Frost’ is part of a new series of hellebores that, for the Midwest, bloom as early as January; this cultivar blooms a bit later, usually in March.
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Plant Guide‘Charity’ mahonia
Mahonia × media 'Charity'Few shrubs offer flowers as late as this one, which starts blooming in late October or early November.
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Plant Guide‘Pallida’ Witch Hazel
Hamamelis × intermedia 'Pallida'There are few better winter displays than the blossoms of 'Pallida' witch hazel.
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Plant Guide‘Marginata’ winter daphne
Daphne odora ‘Marginata’This winter daphne has yellow-margined leaves and rosy pink flower buds that open to white.
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Plant Guide
Winter daphne
Daphne odoraThis evergreen species produces rose-purple buds that open to white and are intensely and exotically fragrant.
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Plant Guide
Chinese Witch Hazel
Hamamelis mollisThis witch hazel is an upright shrub up to 12 feet tall and wide, with oval, softly hairy, mid-green leaves that turn yellow in autumn.
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Plant Guide
‘Israel’ paperwhite narcissus
Narcissus ‘Israel’This tender paperwhite is well-suited to forcing, blooming 3 to 5 weeks after planting.
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Plant GuideHarry Lauder’s walking stick
Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’This upright, treelike shrub has heart-shaped, toothed, midgreen leaves.
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Plant GuideDwarf Fothergilla, Dwarf Witch Alder
Fothergilla 'Blue Shadow'
These shrubs are beautiful, compact, and easy to grow, making them obvious choices for mixed borders, foundation plantings, and naturalizing.
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Plant GuideHellebore
Helleborus × hybridus cvs.From late fall through winter, the leathery leaves of hellebores stay glossy, cheery, and green.
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