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22 matches for “winter flowering”
- Dahlia…It flowers on new growth all season, so the more you take off the more it makes, and a plant left with a few…
- Pale pink shrub rose…flowers next. Stop deadheading in September if you want hips over winter. Otherwise carry on until it stops of its own accord. Winter Little…
- Christmas cactus…Sharply pointed, claw-like segments mean Schlumbergera truncata, the crab cactus, which flowers from about November. Rounded, scalloped segments mean S. × buckleyi, the true…
- Wild rose…It flowers on wood made in previous seasons, so cutting it back hard in late winter the way you would a hybrid tea removes…
- Shrub rose…wood when you prune in late winter. A rose that goes blotchy in August has usually already flowered, which puts the whole thing in…
- Climbing rose…Late winter is when the pruning happens: take out the dead and the crossing, shorten last year's flowered side shoots hard, and keep…
- Bear's breechesGrown as much for the leaves as the flowers: big, glossy, deeply lobed things that arch out into a mound a metre across. The…
- Japanese snowball viburnum…just after flowering — next year's flower buds form on this year's growth through summer, so cutting in autumn or winter removes the…
- Penstemon…throws side shoots that flower again, which is what stretches the season from July to the first frosts. Winter Leave it entirely alone. The…
- Shrubby salviaSmall, blackcurrant-scented leaves on thin woody stems, and a steady supply of little two-lipped flowers from midsummer until something finally freezes it…
- Canna lilyThe dark-leaved cannas are grown as much for the leaves as the flowers: broad bronze-purple paddles with a faint stripe, holding up…
- Rose campionFlat, five-petalled flowers in a magenta so saturated it looks slightly wrong next to anything pastel, scattered on wiry grey stems above rosettes…
- Double daylily…Clumps get congested after four or five years and flower less. Lift and split in early spring or autumn, discarding the woody middle. Winter…
- Border phloxStiff upright stems topped with a dome of small, flat, five-petalled flowers, packed tightly enough to read as one solid head from a…
- Morning glory…natural response to a plant that looks lush but will not flower is to feed it again, which makes it worse. Keep it hungry…
- YarrowDense flat-topped plates of tiny flowers, this one a hot magenta-pink, held above finely divided foliage that looks more like a fern…
- AnthuriumThick, glossy, deeply notched leaves on long stalks coming out of a central crown, and above them a single coral-orange flower on a…
- Lacecap hydrangea…plus dry soil equals crisped leaf edges. Winter Nothing to do. Resist tidying the brown flowerheads away in autumn, however scruffy they look — they…
- Hardy geranium…a hardy herbaceous perennial that makes a spreading mound of soft, matt, palmately lobed leaves and holds thin-stemmed flowers just above it. The…
- Japanese maple…The flowers are tiny red things in spring that you will only notice if you go looking, and nobody grows one for them. What…
- Hollyhock…July. Winter Cut the spike down and clear the debris properly. Any seedling rosettes that appear nearby are next summer's flowers, so leave…
- Cherry tomato…bush stops itself at about knee height and starts flowering everywhere at once. Winter There is no overwintering it. In most years late blight…