Who Says Winter Can't Be Colorful?
Shrubs & Vines With Gorgeous Winter Interest & Color
At SummerWinds Nursery, you can find winter interest through our selection of beautiful winter-blooming or colorful shrubs and vines, including those listed below (available while supplies last).
Camellias
Camellias come in a variety of colors and provide elegant, often long-lasting winter blooms contrasted by glossy, dark green evergreen foliage. Limited quantities available.
- Light Needs: Filtered sun (for light colors). Full sun to part-shade with filtered sun in extreme heat (for deep reds).
- Watering Needs: Water regularly, when top 3 inches of soil is dry.
- Blooms: Often long blooming season, late winter to mid-spring.
- Landscape Uses: Borders, containers, cutting gardens, espalier, mass planting, privacy screen, specimen or woodland garden.
Sources: https://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/469/nuccios-bella-rossa-camellia/ and https://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/519/kumasaka-camellia/
Indian Hawthorne
This versatile shrub has handsome, glossy, deep-green evergreen foliage and large clusters of fragrant, flowers in late winter/early spring.
- Light Needs: Partial to full sun.
- Watering Needs: Once established, water occasionally; more often in extreme heat or containers.
- Blooms: Late winter/early spring blooms.
- Landscape Uses: Border, coastal exposure, container, hedge, mass planting, privacy screen, urban garden, windbreak or woodland garden.
Source: https://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/2047/majestic-beauty-indian-hawthorn/
Pink Jasmine
This fast-growing vine with glossy, semi-evergreen foliage boasts a spectacular display of pink buds that open to intensely fragrant white flowers.
- Light Needs: Partial to full sun.
- Watering Needs: Water regularly to maintain evenly moist soil - weekly, or more often, especially in extreme heat.
- Blooms: Late winter through early summer blooms.
- Landscape Uses: Border, container, espalier, ground cover, hanging basket, houseplant, mass planting or urban garden.
Source: https://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/1586/pink-jasmine/
Carolina Jessamine
Also known as Yellow Jessamine, this well-mannered climbing vine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is prized for its spectacular display of fragrant, bright yellow flowers. Evergreen to semi-evergreen.
- Light Needs: Partial to full sun.
- Watering Needs: Water regularly to maintain evenly moist soil - weekly, or more often, especially in extreme heat.
- Blooms: Late winter to early spring blooms.
- Landscape Uses: Container, espalier, firescaping/fire wise, ground cover, mass planting, privacy screen or woodland garden.
Source: https://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/1311/carolina-jessamine/
Hardenbergia
Also known as Purple Lilac Vine, this dependable evergreen vine (Hardenbergia violacea) is an interesting, intricate, tough, twisting, subtle vine with bright purple flowers.
- Light Needs: Best in partial light shade. Will tolerate full sun (without reflective heat sources).
- Watering Needs: Water regularly, allowing soil to just dry between waterings.
- Blooms: Late winter/early spring blooms.
- Landscape Uses: Climbing accent, trellis on patios, house or walls.
Source: http://www.public.asu.edu/~camartin/plants/Plant%20html%20files/hardenbergiaviolacea.html
Hamelia
This cheerful shrub is commonly known as fire bush and has foliage that turns from gray to red (in winter). Has showy orange to scarlet/crimson elongated, tubular blooms most of the year.
- Light Needs: Full sun to partial shade. Avoid western exposures and reflected light.
- Watering Needs: Water regularly, more often in extreme heat.
- Blooms: Blooms most of the year. Mostly showy orange to scarlet or crimson, collora tubular, elongated blooms; fruits are black and berrylike.
- Landscape Uses: Flowering accent shrub for oasis and mesic plantings.
Source: http://www.public.asu.edu/~camartin/plants/Plant%20html%20files/hameliapatens.html
Nandina
This colorful evergreen shrub is very hardy and trouble-free. It boasts vibrant, ever-changing dramatic foliage that emerges scarlet red in spring and matures to blue-green in summer—as small white flowers appear.
- Light Needs: Partial to full sun.
- Watering Needs: Water regularly - weekly, or more often in extreme heat or containers.
- Blooms: Late winter/early spring blooms through summer.
- Landscape Uses: Border, container, firescaping/fire wise, hedge, mass planting, poolside or urban garden.
Source: https://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/1877/gulf-stream-heavenly-bamboo/
