Add Some Colour to Your Winter Garden

When you think of home maintenance, often you forget about a big part of the appeal of a home - the garden! Autumn is the ideal time to make sure that come the winter months, you can still enjoy your garden in all its glory.
 

We've put together a list of plants to plant this season, that will add some colour come Winter.

During the cold winter months, these plants will add some colour to your garden:

• Hypoestes aristata (Ribbon Bush)

• Aloe spp (Aloes) - some of the new hybrid Aloes have a longer or different flowering time and can, if planned and grouped properly, ensure colour from autumn right through winter.

• Leptospermum scoparium 'Cherry Brandy' (Australian Tea bush)

• Euryops virgineus (Honey Daisy)

• Camellia japonica (Common Camellia)

• Erica spp (Heather)

• Azalea spp (Azalea)

• Leucospermum spp (Pincushion)

• Protea spp (Sugarbush)

• Kniphofia praecox (Red-hot poker)

Select from the following hedging and screening plants:

• Escallonia varieties

• Abelia varieties

• Syzygium paniculatum (Brush Cherry)

• Viburnum odoratissimum (Sweet Viburnum)

• Carissa macrocarpa (Cape Num-num) - excellent for security as well.

• Polygala myrtifolia (September Bush)

• Pittosporum varieties

• Duranta varieties

• Freylinia tropica (Honey Bell Bush)

• Raphiolepis indica (Indian Hawthorn)

Consider the following for lower hedges:

• Buxus sempervirens (Boxwood)

• Lavandula 'Margaret Roberts' (Margaret Roberts Lavender).

• Rosmarinus officinalis (Rosemary)

• Portulacaria affra (Spekboom)

• Cuphea hyssopifolia (False Heather)