The Winter Garden
Snow may
not be in the immediate forecast for most areas of the country, so there is
still time to plan for winter interest (and plant). I, like most gardeners,
find something to see in all seasons, whether that is a dried seedpod or the
very earliest bulbs poking up through the January frost.
Suzy Bales, author of
The Garden in Winter, joins me to talk about things we might plant now for
winter (and winters to come). I tell her about a plant I covet but cannot grow,
although she can in her Long Island garden: the Daphne relative Edgeworthia chrysantha (also called E. papyifera and E. tomentosa). If you live in USDA Zone 7, 8,
or 9, consider this shrub with fuzzy, silken buds all winter (above, left) and
very early fragrant blossoms (above, right). The flowers of the species are
cream colored, and varieties are available in red (‘rubra’, ‘Red Dragon’) and
yellow (‘Winter Gold’, above right, and below). Photos courtesy of the JC Raulston Arboretum.
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