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propertyHome/Community/Community NewsLatest looks for a lively winter gardenBy Les HodgeJune 18 2021 - 6:00pmBy Les HodgeJune 18 2021 - 6:00pmFacebookTwitterWhatsappEmailCopyVIVID: There's

no need to endure a dreary winter garden when you have camellia japonicas. Pictures: Shutterstock Gardens can sometimes lack colour during the colder months, but with a little planning and

careful selection of plants, your garden can be as bright as the warmer months.

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especially valuable at this time as they provide a good backdrop for flowering annuals and perennials when deciduous plants are leafless.

The lovely sasanqua camellias begin flowering mid autumn with their fleeting flower petals littering the lawn, turning it into a tapestry of colour. In Japan loose-petalled varieties have

been specially bred so their petals do fall as this is revered as great beauty. In winter the sansquas will be joined by the first of the early flowering japonica varieties.

Glorious red callistemons will drive the chill from a winter landscape. The winter flowering Grevilleas come in a vast range of colours and flower shapes, providing a valuable food source

for native birds and bees. Then there's Callistemon citrinus and C. 'Endeavour', two bright red bottlebrushes, and Banksia spinulosa 'Birthday Candles', a small shrub with dramatic

orange/gold flower spikes.

Correa 'Winter Bells' is appealing with subtle pale pink blooms while the native rosemary, Westringia, comes in colours of white or purple, and the branches of the wattles are adorned with

clusters of butter yellow blossoms.

Kniphofia 'Winter Cheer' adds a burst of fiery colour with massive flower heads of orange/red on sturdy one-metre-tall stems. Plant where the winter sun can shine through to see it at its

most brilliant.

Hellebores, known as winter roses, bring welcome colour late in colder months. The emerging buds and new leaves of Hellebores, winter roses, are interesting to watch as they slowly unfurl.

These plants vary in colour with new varieties in yellow, peach, deep red and a pretty green.

The delightful Pieris, the lily of the valley shrub, with eye-catching new red foliage and long hanging clusters of fragrant, tiny bell-shaped flowers are also great winter performers.

P. 'Temple Bells' boasts clusters of pink buds that open to white, the resilient P. 'Dorothy Wyckoff' offers blooms in subtle rose shades and the aptly named P. 'Christmas Cheer' is stunning

with pink-tipped white flowers.

Towards the end of June the paper white narcissi jonquils will display their delicate colour with the old favourite Soliel d'or and its highly perfumed flowers not far behind, followed by

hyacinths, tulips, scillias, freesias, snowdrops, anemones and daffodils.

The mention of perfume reminds me of the shrub Calycanthus praecox known as wintersweet for its intense scent and striking yellow blooms with purple centres.

Daphne odora and Jasminum polyanthum make delightful companions as their fragrant flowers complement each other, and the boronias with bell-shaped, aromatic flowers are always a welcome

addition at this time of year.

For something truly unique, try planting some ornamental kale. Winter flowering annuals of stocks and Iceland poppies that were planted in autumn should be starting to bud up.

Other winter-hardy plants include calendulas, the old English pot marigold, lobelia, alyssum, delphiniums, fox gloves, carnations, primroses, primulas, Sweet Williams, pansies and salvias.

Mass plantings of cinerarias put on a splendid show growing under trees and the colour of the pink, cream or green crinkled leaves of the ornamental kale is intensified by the cold weather.

But of course no winter garden would be complete without the darling little violets with their unique perfume and dainty mauve, pink or white flowers.

DIARY July 20: Australian Plants Society Tasmania meeting, Max Fry Hall, Gorge Road, Trevallyn, 7.30pm

July 21: Launceston Horticultural Society meeting, Windmill Hill Hall, High Street, 7.30pm. Romain Elnick, President of the Orchid Society, is guest speaker. Visitors welcome.

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