You can enhance your garden's winter appeal by planting shrubs and other plants that produce colorful flowers and/or foliage during the winter season.
Use the chart below to select winter flowering and color plants for certain sun exposures, water needs, bloom season and USDA Zones
*Water Needs: Indicates needs once plants are established
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Plant Name or Type | Flower Color | Fall Bloom Time | Fall Foliage | Berry Color | USDA Zones |
Abelia | White | Early-Mid | Multi-color | - | 6-9 |
Anise 'Florida Sunshine' - Illicium | - | - | Yellow | - | 7-9 |
Azaleas - Encore | 29 Colors | Early-Late | Green | - | 6-9 (varies) |
Burning Bush - Euonymus alatus | - | - | Red | - | 4-8 |
Butterfly Bush - Buddleia | Assorted | Early-Late | Grey-Green | - | 5-9 |
Camellia Sasanquas | Assorted | Mid-Late | Dark Green | - | 7-10 |
Cypress 'Blue Ice' | - | - | Silver-Blue | Blue | 6-9 |
Cypress "Gold Mop' | - | - | Golden-Yellow | - | 5-10 |
Cypress 'Silver Smoke' | - | - | Silver-Grey | Blue | 7-9 |
Gardenia 'Jubilation' | White | Early-Late (some) | Dark Green | - | 7-11 (varies) |
Grasses (Ornamental) | Assorted | Early-Late (some) | Assorted | - | 4-10 (varies) |
Hydrangeas | Assorted | Early (some) | Green | - | 3-9 (varies) |
Juniper 'Blue Star' | - | - | Blue | - | 4-8 |
Lantana | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 7-11 (varies) |
Loropetalums (Chinese Witchazel) | - | - | Purple | - | 7-10 |
Nandina 'Blush Pink' | - | - | Dk. Pink | - | 6-10 |
Nandina 'Flirt' | White | Mid | Red | - | 6-11 |
Nandina 'Obsession' | White | Mid | Red | - | 6-11 |
Rose of Sharon - Althea (Hibiscus) | Various | Early | Green | - | 4b-9 (varies) |
Roses | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 4-11 (varies) |
Tea Olive - Osmanthus | Wht, Ylw, Orng | Early-Late | Green | - | 8-11 |
Viburnum 'Summer Snowflake' | White | Early-Mid | Green | - | 5-9 (varies) |
Yucca 'Color Guard' | - | - | Yellow | - | 4-9 |
Perennial Summer Color Plants | Flower Color | Fall Bloom Time | Fall Foliage | Berry Color | USDA Zones |
Agastache (Hummingbird Mint) | Assorted | Early-Mid | Green | - | 7-9 |
Anemone (Windflower) | Pink, White | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-9 |
Artemisia (Wormwood) | - | - | Silver-Grey | - | 5-9 |
Asclepias (Butterfly Milkweed) | Pink, Orange | Early | Green | - | 3-9 |
Asters | Assorted | Early-Mid | Green | ||
Autumn Fern | - | - | Bronze-Orange | - | 3-8 |
Blue Star Creeper - Isotoma | Light Blue | Sporadic | Green | - | 5-9 |
Ceratostigma (Plumbago) | Blue | Early | Green | - | 4-9 |
Chelone (Turtlehead) | Pink | Early | Dark Green | - | 3-8 |
Coreopsis (Tickseed) | Assorted | Early | Green | - | 5-8 |
Delosperma (Ice Plants) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-11 (varies0 |
Digiplex (Foxglove) | Orange-Pink | Early-Mid | Green | - | 8-11 |
Dicliptera (Hummingbird Plant) | Orange | Early-Late | Grey-Green | - | 7-10 |
Echinacea (Coneflowers) | Assorted | Early | Green | - | 4-8 |
Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed) | White, Pink | Early | Green | - | 4-8 |
Farfugium (Leopard Plant) | Yellow | Mid-Late | Green | - | 7-10 |
Gaillardia (Blanket Flower) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-10 |
Gaura (Wand Flower) | White, Pink | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-10 |
Helenium (Helen's Flower) | Gold-Red | Early-Mid | Green | - | 4-8 |
Helianthus (Sunflower) | Yellow | Early | Green | - | 4-8 |
Heuchera (Coral Bells) | - | - | Assorted | - | 4-9 |
Kniphofia (Torch Lily) | Assorted | Early | Green | - | 5-8 |
Lamium | - | - | Various | - | 3-11 |
Lamb's Ear - Stachys | - | - | Silver-White | - | 4-9 |
Lantana | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 7-11 (varies) |
Lavender | Blue, Pink | Early | Grey-Green | - | 8-11 (varies) |
Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny) | - | - | Yellow | - | 4-9 |
Nepeta (Catmint) | Blue | Early-Late | Grey-Green | - | 4-9 |
Penstemon (Beardstongue) | Assorted | Early | Green | - | 5-8 |
Perovskia (Russian Sage) | Blue, White | Early | Green | - | 5-8 |
Physostegia (Obedient Plant) | Pink, White | Early | Green | - | 3-9 |
Salvia (Sages) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 6-11 (varies) |
Scabiosa (Pincushion Flower) | Blue | Early-Late | Green | - | 4-9 |
Sedum 'Autumn Joy' | Assorted | Early-Mid | Grey-Green | - | 3-9 |
Verbena | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 6-10 (varies) |