In the winter months, when the days get shorter and the light decreases, it is possible to beautify your garden, terrace or balcony by choosing robust plants. Choose rustic plants that bring touches of vibrant color and scent, brightening up your outdoor space despite the harshness of winter.
Grow your garden, terrace or balcony with colorscolors the whole year. By choosing certain shrubs, perennials, bulbs or foliage plants, you can bring color to brighten up your exterior all year round. seasonseason of ‘winterwinter.
Glittering permanent leaves
Play around with foliage too to add pops of color to your flower beds in winter. of fernsferns The green leaves will contrast with the leaves of heucheras or heucherellas, purple, orange or brown. Grasses such as sedge or ophiopogon will look great in beds, pots or planters.
Colorful bushes
In winter, some shrubs brighten up the garden with their foliage, colorful berries or even winter flowers. Succumb mimosamimosa which will perfume your green environment or your interior in a bouquet from January to March. Sarcoccus is covered with small, very fragrant white flowers from January to March. Chimonanthus is decorated with small yellow bells all winter stickssticks red on drinkdrink naked, small inflorescenceinflorescence fragrant. Willow will produce masses of bright yellow or orange flowers on leafless branches from December to March. Some clematis armandia and cirrhosa are covered in flowers from November to March, some very fragrant. Another winter joy for a flower wall or trellis honeysucklehoneysuckle winter, which is decorated with very bright and fragrant white flowers. Dare to use colorful woods with yellow and red corners or decorative bark.
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In winter, use decorative shrubs to create a 100% natural Christmas wreath. Physalis, ornamental apple tree, branches of holly, mistletoe or cottonwood, ivy creeper, so many plants that play with colors and shapes.
Light bulbs with an unexpected charm
Use winter bulbs before spring bulbs such as hyacinths, tulips or daffodils appear. THE irisiris reticulata with flowers in shades of blue emerge from the ground in February to March, as does eranthis, with yellow flowers. In February you can admire the flowering of small bulbs SnowflakeSnowflake or crocuses that point with their tip nosenose until April.
Spectacular flowers
After enjoying dahlias, asters and other gladioli untilautumnautumn, plant carpets of pansies in 1001 colors. Play with shapes, heights and colors. Bring a touch of pink to the undergrowth with outdoor cypress or heather. Also adopt Christmas geraniums with graphic flowers in shades of white, mauve or mauve.
Amazing berries
The star of winter compositions is wintergreen, which is covered with small berries in tones dewdew. In the garden or to make bouquets, use the fruits of rockrose, holly, ornamental apple treeornamental apple tree or even more remarkable, purple callicarpa berries suspended in clusters, or even snowdrop berries, white or pink, sometimes translucenttranslucent.