A FEW days into the New Year, the outside thermometer registered 16F. The garden looked absolutely beautiful with the lawn, perennial grasses and seedheads rimed with a thick silvery crust of frost, ...

It is not that I have been patient with my Chimonanthus praecox so much as oblivious. I planted it a long time ago and forgot about it – which is very easy to do. In summer it is an open leafy ...

STEPHEN RYAN: As I mentioned earlier, we all want good flowering plants in the winter, and for me, none is better than 'Winter Sweet,' Chimonanthus praecox . Chimonanthus actually means winter ...

Some time ago this column featured a certain pine tree called “Pond Pine” that grows in the Southeast in places we call “pocosins.” You might remember that a pocosin is a peat-based, very shrubby ...

The year is almost imperceptibly creeping forward. The extra minutes of daylight since the beginning of the year, which make so much of a difference to so many of us, also make a big difference to ...

Wintersweet has beautiful, sweetly scented, yellow flowers throughout the winter months. Ideal for a sunny, well-drained mixed or winter border, make sure you place it somewhere its scent will be ...

When it’s cold and gloomy outside, let’s hear it for plants that flower in the depth of winter It seems so vulnerable to bloom in these darkest of days, with the thinnest of sun rays to warm your ...

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