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Are you anticipating your spring garden already? Many beautiful flowers and plants bloom in the winter, so you don't have to wait to enjoy splashes of color in your yard. While it is crucial to transition your garden, which involves properly placing mulch, these months don't have to be dedicated to preparation. Winter pansies are the best choice for winter gardens, so think about planting some.
Winter pansies may freeze solid, defrost, and immediately begin growing and flowering again—did you know that? This time of year, they make great bedding plants because of their extreme resilience. Combine them with sweet alyssum, nemesia, or snapdragons to create a gorgeous landscape.
These flowers can all withstand a Utah winter and tolerate some degree of frost. You might wish to transfer them to containers that you can bring inside and outside of your home if your area has a persistent deep freeze.
The Christmas Rose is a more common name for the Lenten rose (Helleborus), and for good reason. This perennial flower prefers to bloom in the colder months. Most likely, you've seen it. Its stunning, leathery-looking dark green leaves rise sharply above the snow or your winter mulch. Certain varieties of Christmas roses are great additions to your garden because they can survive winters in Zone 3. They complement almost any other flower and look particularly good next to ferns and fragrant woodruff.
What's the best part? The taste of the Christmas Rose is disliked by deer and moles. This means you can enjoy watching as a rainbow of colors and shapes emerges without having to worry about foragers taking over your other plants—a curry powder sprinkled on them will solve that issue, though. Wait until the petals begin to open before removing the browning leaves from the Christmas rose as it starts to wither. Flowers in buds can find considerable protection from dead leaves throughout the winter.
Even bulbs designed to produce blooms during the winter are available. This includes the aptly called snowdrop (Galanthus), which typically appears in late winter to announce the arrival of warmer weather. It's approximately the size of a dandelion and can go through snow and ice! Gardeners adore these flowers because they signal the arrival of warmer weather, and the white bell blossoms are stunning.
A winter flower that resembles a snowdrop, winter aconite, may also appeal to you. But for a little joy, they have yellow blooms. Remember that these bulbs grow to be about six inches tall when planting them. Consider the winter conditions where you live and arrange all of your winter flowers so that they are clearly visible. It's preferable to plant them where you can enjoy their beauty from the comfort of your windows.
Please contact The Dirt Bag for more advice and suggestions regarding winter gardens.
