If nature is at rest in winter, some trees and shrubs can still beautify your garden with their flowers.
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winter jasmine
Winter Jasmine.
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Winter
jasmine
(Jasminum nudiflorum)
or
bare-flowered jasmine is one of the rare climbing plants to flower in winter.
This shrub with yellow flowers belongs to the Oleaceae family.
In this family, we also find forsythia, lilac and menodora.
Originally from China, it is regularly found in the south of France.
Winter jasmine, as its name suggests, blooms during the winter season, from January to March, while star jasmine, whose flowers are white, blooms in the summer.
Unlike other jasmines, winter jasmine is an odorless plant.
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Japanese apricot
Japanese apricot.
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Less popular than the Japanese cherry tree, the Japanese
apricot tree
(Prunus mume)
offers abundant flowering with pinkish hues in winter (January to March).
Attached to the vast Rosaceae family, this small tree native to Asia blooms small fragrant flowers which give way to fruit between May and July.
Easy to maintain, this tree does not require regular pruning.
To have abundant flowering, however, it is necessary to remove dead wood.
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Witch Hazel
Hazel of the Witches.
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Witch
hazel
(
Hamamelis virginiana)
or witch hazel belongs to the family Hamamelidaceae and is native to the United States.
This leafy shrub is known for the beauty of its ribbon-like, fragrant flowers that bloom in late winter.
These flowers, in grouped filaments forming an orange-yellow tuft, offer a luminous bloom.
Able to reach 2 to 6 meters in height, the witch hazel easily resists frosts.
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winter camellia
Winter camellia.
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The
winter camellia
(Camellia japonica)
is a particularly hardy shrub: it resists extremely low temperatures down to -15°C.
Appreciated for its opulent pink-red flowers and evergreen foliage, the camellia is a flamboyant shrub that blooms from November to May.
This shrub, belonging to the Theaceae family, is native to China, Korea and Japan.
Its slow growth facilitates its maintenance since it does not require any cutting requirements.
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winter mimosa
Winter mimosa.
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The
winter mimosa
(Acacia dealbata)
also known as the
"florists' mimosa"
is a small tree that belongs to the Mimosoideae family.
As its name suggests, the winter mimosa produces flowers in the winter season, from January to March.
Yellow and very fragrant, its flowers have the particularity of being in the shape of pompoms.
The mimosa is not a French plant, nor even a European one, it is a plant species native to Australia which was only introduced in France in the 19th century.
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