These Winter Flowering Shrubs with their unusual textures, foliage, colors, fragrance, and flowers can beautify your garden. Some even decorate themselves with bright and vibrant berries.
Botanical Name: Pyracantha coccinea
USDA Zones: 5-9
After flowering from late spring to mid-summer, it bears astonishing orange to scarlet edible berries in fall and winter. ‘Lalandei,’ ‘Mohave,’ and ‘Yukon Belle’ are some of the best varieties.
Botanical Name: Chimonanthus praecox
USDA Zones: 7-9
The name justifies this shrub because of the sweet fragrance of the blooms that appears in the dormant winter season and early spring. It requires a full sun location that is sheltered against the wind.
Botanical Name: Prunus subhirtella
USDA Zones: 5-8
This small tree-like shrub can grow up to 20-30 feet tall. It blooms in fall, winter, or spring, depending on the climate. Flowers change from deep pink to pale pink with time.
Botanical Name: Viburnum x bodnantense
USDA Zones: 5-9
It is a deciduous shrub with uniquely shaped oval leaves. The clustered pink flowers are scented and long-lasting and appear in the winter and early spring.
Botanical Name: Hamamelis virginiana
USDA Zones: 3-9
The yellow blooms of this plant spread an enticing fragrance in the surrounding in winters. Bizzare thin ribbons shape of the flowers also makes them stand out.
Botanical Name: Clematis cirrhosa var. purpurascens
USDA Zones: 6-9
The recurved white to yellow petals with freckled red of nodding flowers steal the show in winters. Also, they spread a mildly sweet scent, which is definitely a mood enhancer.
Botanical Name: Edgeworthia chrysantha
USDA Zones: 6-9
Cultivars: Snow Cream, Gold Rush, and John Bryant
This shrub shows huge clusters of tubular flowers in late winter to spring
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