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💐 Ten best shrubs for winter colors

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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.

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🌈 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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