Winter Archives

Climbers that keep their leaves in winter: an evergreen vine selection

Very useful on a deck, balcony or terrace, evergreen climbing vines help create a cocoon of greenery. These also produce abundant flowers! Read on to discover our selection of ornamental evergreen plants.

Stock the pantry with winter vegetables

In the vegetable patch, summer is the season for harvests, but sowing still continues for lettuce, cabbage and other vegetables for winter.

Flowers from winter through spring, every month gets its blooms!

Each season brings its own sweet charms to the garden. But after a foggy autumn and a biting cold winter you’re probably aching for your garden to show signs that cute little spring flowers are coming in.

Winter to spring, flowers that bloom in each month

Which vegetables to grow in winter?

There are several different vegetables that are hardy enough to the cold that you can still make the vegetable patch an enchanting place to be. Zoom in on kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, winter lettuce…

A winter awakening: dots of color in the garden with cold-loving blooms

Come February, violets, pansies, and primroses start painting nature in subtle yet stunning hues. Whether in planters or pots, we adore their beauty and hardiness.

Natural health boosters to avoid pesky sickness in winter

How can one avoid falling sick to the flu, throat infections and gastroenteritis, and other mood-sapping infections? Without needing to wait for a consultation at the doctor’s,

Blooming of shrubs one season at a time

To help you choose your shrubs depending on their blooming season, Nature-and-Garden recommends this selection of the most beautiful flowering shrubs for each season.

Colorful flowers for homes in winter

Warm colors for a warm home. That’s what Poinsettia and hyacinth have to offer. These two plants gift us with an explosion of colors at the heart of winter.

Winter garden boxes

Even in the midst of winter, there are many plants that will lend their beauty to balconies, terraces and windowsills, whatever the container.

Daphne, a winter flower shrub

In winter, at a time where flowers are dire, Daphne blooms enchant the garden.

Winter blooming shrubs, beautiful flowers in the cold

Even though there aren’t very many, winter blooming shrubs are often the most amazing. They are unique in that they bloom when all the other plants are at rest.

The complete January Garden Guide

January is often a time of new resolutions, promises to do things better as you start planning your

Camellia, flowers at the heart of winter

Camellia is a resilient winter-blooming shrub. Some types display their most beautiful gems at the heart of winter.

Clematis cirrhosa, a fragrant winter vine

Clematis cirrhosa, or Early virgin’s-bower, is a clematis with fragrant winter flowers.

Clematis cirrhosa - Early Virgin's bower

A Cyclamen for the entire winter

With its diverse shapes and bright colors, the cyclamen is the highlight of the winter, especially indoors. Here’s how to care for this potted flower during the cold season.

Feeding birds in winter, basic rules

Feeding birds in winter is an excellent initiative to help them through this difficult season.

5 keys for a beautiful winter garden

How should you care for your garden in winter? Snezana Gerbault, an agronomist and engineer, packed all her tips in book that was prized in several recent events.

9 outdoor plants that resist cold winter weather

Brrr, winter is just along the corner, bringing along those cold temperatures and foul weather. Not all plants can cope when the outdoors gets colder than freezing. Luckily, there are quite a few cold-resistant plants for the garden.

Fragrant winter flowers, scents for brisk winter air!

Fruity, flowery or vanilla-like, sensuous and mesmerizing, the fragrance of certain winter flowers is anything but low-key.

Chimonanthus, gold winter flowers

Chimonanthus, also called wintersweet, is a shrub with stunning winter blooming.

Winter flowers for outdoor garden boxes

Tending to flowers in planters comes naturally in spring and summer, they’re perfect for dressing up our decks and balconies. But winter is also a season where flowers and colors abound!

Heather and other winter flowers in a a stone garden box

Winter heather, fall and winter Erica perennials

Winter heather, also called Erica, is a beautiful cute plant that blooms throughout fall and winter.

Erica heather is perfect for pots and baskets and carried around.

A green balcony, even in winter

Don’t leave your garden boxes and pots empty during the cold season: many plants will let you landscape your balcony with plants in winter.

A balcony in winter overloaded with green ivy and red and white cyclamen flowers.

Five fabulous winter-blooming flowers

Even in winter, nature finds ways to gift us with joy and magic, with flowers that are full of warmth and color.

New year’s plants, symbols of luck and long life

Which ornamental plants are rooted in history and culture, traditionally planted in the garden or hosted

White hellebore, pearly white flowers in winter

Though it’s certainly the most famous one, Helleborus niger isn’t the only white hellebore in the world. There are indeed a good twenty species within the Helleborus genus, each of which is again subdivided into many varieties. Of these, there are quite a few hellebore with white flowers.

Wintersweet, sweet winter blooming

Wintersweet is a wonderful winter-blooming shrub tree.

Delicately unfurled yellow wintersweet blooms along a branch, with hazy branches and blue sky in the background.

The complete guide to spending February in the garden

Vegetation starts to stir and days grow longer. But even though some days hint that spring is near, others remind us that we are still in winter!

Plants to winterize and how to give them shelter

Not all plants are hardy. Some are more delicate and are vulnerable to freezing. Adequate protection from the cold must therefore be provided: winterizing is what this is called.

Winterizing plants, here with burlap, greenhouses, and other shelters

Winterizing your olive trees and protecting them from the cold

You might not expect this: what is most fatal to olive trees in winter isn’t the cold – it’s moisture. Protect and winterize your olive tree by diverting excess water and providing shelter and insulation.

Winterizing indoor plants

Like some mammals, indoor plants also need to hibernate! Here is how to ensure they rest at peace to wake up again from their slumber as beautiful as ever!

Foggy window with tools to winterize indoor plants

10 Winter flowers from ground to sky: bulbs, shrubs, trees…

Winter flowers truly brighten up the cold season with their colorful petals.

Three tuffs of clematis seeds are like flowers in the winter garden

Winter pruning of pip fruit trees

Although pruning is definitely a human invention, and trees can go without it to develop naturally, it presents the advantage of renewing the plant’s vigor and increasing its fruit productivity.

Sweet box, cute winter flowers

Sweet box is a beautiful shrub with a surprising name that produces beautiful winter blooms.

Brussels sprouts, a touch of green in winter

Winter is a season often associated with cabbages and cauliflowers… why not make the most of the season and add brussel sprouts to the list!

Protect your garden from the cold

Early fall, protect soil and plants from winter frost spells.

Mulch, a winter protection, under a soapbush shrub

Hellebore, flowers for the cold

Few flowers bloom at the heart of winter: the hellebore can illuminate your garden even when cold snow blankets all.

Wonderful Christmas roses, flowers for the winter season

If you’re looking for one of those elusive rare flowers that bloom in winter, then hellebore is an excellent pick! Christmas magic comes alive with this rose-like flower!

Pink Christmas rose variety blooming for the feasts

Flowers in the garden for fall and winter

When the plant kingdom slumbers and snow sometimes covers the green span of lawn

An open pink winter flower, the Christmas rose or hellebore.

Kill off diseases on fruit trees over winter with these treatments

Fall and Winter are the time to apply various treatments that will help eliminate parasites and fungus from fruit trees. This will reduce risk of disease in Spring.

Winter, time to clean and organize your garden

Fall was particularly enjoyable, with maximum sun, mild temperatures and no strong winds: ideal to set the stage for our winter garden tasks.

A wheelbarrow with dead branches inside.

Provide small animals with shelter

Birds, insects, hedgehogs… These small animals are very useful to help manage gardens in a natural manner. It makes a lot of sense to provide them with housing and shelter before winter sets in.

Housing and shelter for a small garden animal, the hedgehog

Protecting plants from freezing and from the cold

When the winter cold hits, plants enter a phase of dormancy.

Wrapped plant to protect it from the freezing cold

Vernalization: why plants need chill hours to bloom and bear fruit

Winter is cold and unsuitable for plant growth. When spring comes around, everything bursts into bloom! How do plants set their clocks to bloom at the right time? Vernalization is one of the mysteries

Winter planting

As long as it doesn’t freeze, it’s possible to work on flowering the garden or the balcony even in winter. Perennial and spring bulbs are on the planting checklist here!

A beautiful winter balcony

Winter doesn’t mean your terrace or balcony must remain void of all life.

Hellebore in a wicker basket to beautifully decorate a winter balcony

Lonicera purpusii, Winter Beauty honeysuckle

Lonicera purpusii, the ‘Winter Beauty’ honeysuckle, offers us deliciously fragrant winter blooms.

Winter honeysuckle flowers covering a shrub

Witch-hazel, the tree with golden stars

Witch-hazel: the spooky name betrays its uniqueness. Magical and mysterious, witch-hazel is covered in winter with strange gold yellow flowers and in fall is draped in amazing hues.