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💐 13 festive shrubs with bright flowers that bring color to your Winter Garden when everything else is dormant

Southern Living points to colorful berries as winter garden standbys. Tropical plants take it a step further, filling the cool season with real flowers, not just fruit. From vivid reds to electric blues, these plants prove winter does not have to be dull.

• 🌈 1. Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset

This plant waits for cool weather, then suddenly lights up the shade with fire-red blooms. Flowers appear almost overnight and continue through fall and winter. It rests in summer, returns in fall, spreads gently, and makes an easy, festive ground cover that is perfect for sharing.

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• 🌈 2. Pereskia aculeata - Barbados gooseberry

An unusual vine that surprises in cool weather with delicate, star-shaped blooms followed by tasty fruit. It flowers steadily from fall through winter, adding light, airy color to fences and trellises when most vines are quiet.

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• 🌈 3. Mansoa alliacea - garlic vine

Best known for its garlicky scent, this vine really shines in winter. Cooler temperatures bring clusters of lavender-purple flowers that brighten fences and trellises with very little effort.

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• 🌈 4. Dombeya wallichii - tropical hydrangea

Large pink pompom blooms hang from bare branches in winter, creating a true holiday look. Lightly fragrant and impossible to miss, it brings hydrangea-style drama to the cool season.

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• 🌈 5. Brunfelsia pauciflora Compacta - dwarf yesterday-today-tomorrow

Compact and cheerful, this shrub opens purple flowers that fade to lavender and white. The color shift makes it look like several plants blooming at once, perfect for pots or small garden spaces.

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• 🌈 6. Clerodendrums

Long, cascading sprays of white flowers of Clerodendrum minahassae - fountain clerodendrum - spill from the plant during the cooler months. It brightens shaded areas and adds movement when the garden slows down. Most clerodendrums bloom through Winter!

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• 🌈 7. Tibouchina multiflora - glory bush

Soft, fuzzy purple blooms cover this shrub in winter, backed by velvety leaves that look good year-round. It adds strong color and texture during the cool season.

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• 🌈 8. Holmskioldia sanguinea - Chinese hat

Bright red, orange or yellow, hat-shaped bracts surround small flowers and hold their color through the cool months. The shape alone makes this shrub a standout in winter.

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• 🌈 9. Barleria cristata - Philippine violet

This tough shrub blooms heavily in winter with rich purple flowers. It delivers dependable color when many plants take a break. There is a golden variety too!

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• 🌈 10. Eranthemum pulchellum - blue sage, lead flower

Few plants offer true blue in winter. Electric-blue flower spikes appear in cool weather, adding rare color with minimal care.

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• 🌈 11. Petrea volubilis - queen's wreath

In winter, this woody vine erupts into cascading sprays of lavender star-shaped flowers. It creates a wisteria-like effect right when the garden needs it most.

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• 🌈 12. Tabebuia varieties - dwarf golden and dwarf pink

These trees save their show for winter, blooming on bare branches. Golden forms glow yellow, while pink varieties cover themselves in soft trumpet-shaped flowers.

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🌈 13. Bauhinia trees - pink butterfly and Hong Kong orchid trees
Butterfly-shaped blooms open on leafless branches, giving bauhinias their signature winter elegance. The Hong Kong orchid tree stands out with especially large, vivid flowers.

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🍇 How to have fruit year around from Everbearing Mulberry

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💗 Dwarf Everbearing and Dwarf Issai - Compact, container-friendly varieties perfect for small spaces. These dwarf trees (6-10 ft tall) are disease and drought resistant, with multiple crops year-round, even from the first year! Ideal for patios and small yards..

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🌳 What is so unique about Wurtz avocado?

Avocados come from three main regions, and each group has its own special look, taste, and growing habits. The three types are Mexican, Guatemalan, and West Indian. Many of today’s popular varieties are hybrids, mixing traits from these types as we mentioned in earlier post.

• Wurtz Avocado, also known as Little Cado or Mexicola Dwarf, is special because it’s a true dwarf tree. That means it stays small, making it perfect for small gardens, patios, or containers. You can even grow it indoors in a sunny spot!
• Wurtz is actually a Guatemalan-type avocado, not exactly a Florida or California type. It has a slightly different growth habit and pollination pattern than those two groups.
• The fruit is small to medium in size, with smooth green skin and a rich, buttery flavor. Its flesh is creamy and full of healthy oils, much like the California (Hass-type) avocados.
• In short: Wurtz is a compact, easy-to-grow avocado tree that produces delicious, buttery fruit. It’s perfect for gardeners who want a real avocado tree without needing a big yard.

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