Best Winter Blooming

Hamamelis mollis, commonly known as Chinese Witch Hazel, is a deciduous shrub native to Asia. It’s notable for its exceptionally fragrant, golden-yellow flowers which bloom on bare branches during late winter and early spring. This shrub offers ornamental interest throughout the dormant season. It's...

Hamamelis x intermedia is a hybrid deciduous shrub created by crossing Chinese witch hazel (Hamamelis mollis) and Japanese witch hazel (Hamamelis japonica). It is widely grown in gardens for its winter-blooming, fragrant flowers that feature distinctive narrow, strap-like petals in shades of yellow,...

Hamamelis mollis, commonly known as Chinese witch hazel, is a deciduous shrub native to central and eastern China. It features broad, oval leaves that turn bright yellow in the autumn, followed by highly fragrant yellow flowers that bloom in mid to late winter. The plant was introduced to Western cu...

Daphne odora, or winter daphne, is an evergreen shrub native to China and Japan that was introduced to European cultivation in 1771. It is cultivated in temperate gardens for its fragrant flowers, which bloom in late winter and early spring. The plant produces clusters of small, pink or white blosso...

Chimonanthus praecox, commonly known as wintersweet, is a deciduous shrub native to China. It is distinguished by its waxy, fragrant yellow flowers that bloom directly on leafless stems during midwinter, often beginning in December. The flowers feature outer petals that are pale yellow and inner one...

Edgeworthia chrysantha, commonly known as paperbush, is a deciduous shrub native to the forests of China and the Himalayas. It is characterized by its highly flexible bark fibers, which have been utilized for centuries in Japan to manufacture high-quality washi paper and traditional banknotes. In ho...

Erica carnea, winter heath or spring heath, is a low-growing evergreen shrub native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, valued in gardens as one of the few heaths that flowers from midwinter through early spring.

Sarcococca hookeriana, commonly known as Himalayan sweet box, is an evergreen shrub belonging to the boxwood family, Buxaceae. Native to the Himalayas and neighboring regions of Asia, the species is named in honor of the 19th-century British botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. It is characterized by...

Mahonia × media is a hybrid (M. japonica × M. lomariifolia) first raised in cultivation around 1950, producing long upright racemes of fragrant yellow winter flowers; cultivar 'Charity' holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

The Christmas cactus is a tropical epiphytic cactus from the coastal mountains of southeastern Brazil, where related Schlumbergera plants grow on trees or rocks in humid forests. It has flattened, jointed stems and produces showy flowers around the end of the year under suitable light and temperatur...

Jasminum nudiflorum, the winter jasmine, is a deciduous shrub in the olive family (Oleaceae) native to northern China. It is notable for producing solitary bright yellow flowers on bare green stems during winter and early spring, well before its leaves appear. Introduced to Europe by the Scottish pl...

Lonicera fragrantissima, commonly known as winter honeysuckle, is a deciduous shrub native to China. It was introduced to Western horticulture by the plant hunter Robert Fortune in 1845. The plant is distinguished by its highly fragrant, creamy-white flowers that emerge on bare stems during the wint...

Amaryllis is a small genus of flowering bulbs in the Amaryllidaceae family, native to the Western Cape region of South Africa. The genus is best known for the species *Amaryllis belladonna*, commonly called the belladonna lily or naked lady. This plant is distinguished by its habit of producing larg...