Winter
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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, tree-like shrub has heart-shaped, toothed, mid-green 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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Plant GuideRed aloe
Aloe cameroniiAloe is best known as a medicinal plant ( Aloe vera , Zones 10-11), but there are many beautiful aloes as well.
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Plant Guide‘Aureomaculatum’ leopard plant
Farfugium japonicum 'Aureomaculatum'Green-and-yellow mottled, shiny, kidney-shaped leaves distinguish this evergreen perennial native to streamsides and seashores in East Asia.
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Plant Guide
Dorothy Wyckoff andromeda
Pieris japonica 'Dorothy Wyckoff'This compact, rounded shrub produces reddish-purple buds that first open as soft-pink then mature to white.
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Plant GuideLenten rose, hellebore
Helleborus odorus 'Double Queen'Hellebores begin blooming in mid-winter in a range of colors, adding much needed color very early in the season.
