Top 10 Great Looking Winter Garden Plants

 We have put together our top 10 good looking winter plants. For great winter colour and maximum instant impact in a dull winters garden.

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Skimmia x confusa 'Kew Green'

Shiny green leaves with fragrant greenish-yellow flowers. great for under trees in partial shade, drought tolerant.

Skimmia japonica 'Rubella'

Floppy dark green leaves. Flower heads red in bud opening to white petals and red stalks, a free flowering male form sweetly scented.

Mahonia x media 'Charity'

Long spiny pinnate leaves with long racemes of bright yellow fragrant flowers.

Choisya ternata Sundance

A rounded dense shrub, evergreen with bright yellow-green glossy leaves. Scented white star shaped flowers in clusters in late spring.

Hamamelis mollis 'Chinese witch hazel'

Yellow fragrant flowers from Dec - Mar. Great yellow autumn colour.

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Euonymus fortunei Emerald 'n' Gold 'Spindle Tree'

Dense, evergreen with green and gold edged leaves turning red during winter.

Cornus alba Elegantissima 'Red-barked Dogwood'

White edged gray-green leaves offering colour in the autumn, young shoots are bright red in winter. Creamy flowers followed by white fruits.

Nandina domestica 'Heavenly Bamboo'

An erect bamboo like shrub with unbranched stems. Large compound leaves that turn red in winter. Small white flowers in large panicles in summer.

Sarcococca confusa 'Sweet box'

Dense, spreading habit with glossy green leaves and very fragrant creamy white flowers followed by black fruit.

Helleborus niger 'Christmas rose'

Clustered light green flowers on strong stems, forms bold clumps of deeply divided evergreen foliage.