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Winter… all seems dormant. At times, dead even. A mantle of snow covers the land. Underneath, seeds mature and get ready to burst forth!

Celastrus orbiculatus

Oriental bittersweet: invasive control and garden uses

Climbing plants
Hamamelis mollis

Growing Witch Hazel: care tips and seasonal guide

Trees and shrubs
Cotoneaster horizontalis

Growing Cotoneaster horizontalis: care tips and garden uses

Trees and shrubs
First flowers blooming in winter

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

Garden Flowers
Winter to spring, flowers that bloom in each month

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

Bulb flowers
Winter-blooming rose under the snow

Five fabulous winter-blooming flowers

Special reports
beautiful winter garden

5 keys for a beautiful winter garden

Special reports
Winter flowers

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

Special reports
Lonicera standishii - winter honeysuckle

Lonicera standishii, the winter honeysuckle shrub

Trees and shrubs
Plants that resist freezing

9 outdoor plants that resist cold winter weather

Special reports
Climbers that keep their leaves in winter

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

Climbing plants
Magnolia flower bud protected with fuzz

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

Special reports
Clematis cirrhosa - Early Virgin's bower

Clematis cirrhosa, a fragrant winter vine

Climbing plants
Heather and other winter flowers in a a stone garden box

Winter flowers for planters: brighten balconies all season

Garden Flowers
Single white hellebore

White hellebore, pearly white flowers in winter

Garden Flowers
Pink Christmas rose variety blooming for the feasts

Wonderful Christmas roses, flowers for the winter season

Garden Flowers
Fruit tree winter treatments

Kill off diseases on fruit trees over winter with these treatments

The fruit Orchard
Fragrant winter flowers

Fragrant winter flowers, scents for brisk winter air!

Garden Flowers
winter pruning pear apple trees

Winter pruning of pip fruit trees

The fruit Orchard
Winter balcony

A beautiful winter balcony

Garden Flowers
Indoor flower winter

Colorful flowers for homes in winter

Indoor plants
Plants for new year include juniper.

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

Month after month
Winter crops

Stock the pantry with winter vegetables

The Vegetable Patch
provide insect bird animals with shelter

Provide small animals, insects and birds with shelter

Special reports
Mulch, a winter protection, under a soapbush shrub

Protect easily your garden from the cold

Special reports
Winter flower for planting, hellebore

Winter planting

Garden Flowers
A wheelbarrow with dead branches inside.

Winter, time to clean and organize your garden

Month after month
Houseplants winter Winterizing

How to Care for Houseplants in the Winter

Indoor plants
Honeysuckle 'Winter Beauty' - Lonicera purpusii

Lonicera purpusii, Winter Beauty honeysuckle

Trees and shrubs
January garden tasks

The complete January Garden Guide

Month after month
Winter gardening tasks december

The complete guide to spending December in the garden

Month after month
Unlike flower plants, leaf plants need more light and don't like going dormant

Leaf plants in winter

Indoor plants
Winter vegetables

Which vegetables to grow in winter?

The Vegetable Patch
Winter sickness remedies

Winter well-being: kitchen plants, warming drinks and cold-season habits

Health
Brussel sprouts for winter

Brussels sprouts, a touch of green in winter

The Vegetable Patch
Hellebore, a flower for the cold

Hellebore, flowers for the cold

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

Wintersweet, sweet winter blooming

Trees and shrubs
Chimonanthus

Chimonanthus, gold winter flowers

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

A green balcony, even in winter

Trees and shrubs
daphne

Daphne, a winter flower shrub

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

Flowers in the garden for fall and winter

Garden Flowers
Witch hazel blooming in winter

Winter blooming shrubs, beautiful flowers in the cold

Trees and shrubs
Shrub blooming calendar

Blooming of shrubs one season at a time

Trees and shrubs
Bird with a feeder

The complete guide to spending February in the garden

Month after month
Winter garden box

Winter garden boxes

Garden Flowers
Witch-hazel

Witch-hazel, flower-bearing and original

Trees and shrubs
Sweetbox

Sweet box, cute winter flowers

Trees and shrubs
Erica flower

Winter heather, fall and winter Erica perennials

Garden Flowers
cyclamen

A Cyclamen for the entire winter

Indoor plants
Camellia winter

Camellia, flowers at the heart of winter

Trees and shrubs
Winterizing an olive tree

Winterizing your olive trees and protecting them from the cold

Trees and shrubs