Plumbago Auriculata

Before each minute is swallowed by the holiday season, and while there is still space in the greenhouse, awaiting the onslaught of spring planting, consider a special bonus for winter greenhouse owner-gardeners the privilege of enjoying winter flowering plants! All plants listed below grow in full sun and cool temperatures, it should ideally 40-50 degrees. Remember also that the time costs generally encourage healthy plant growth squat, while discouraging the growth of pest populations.

The "Maple Leaf Lounge 'blooms profusely in winter and likes full sun. Abutilon Abutilon pictum savitzii and' movement thompsonii have variegated foliage, while Abutilon 'Lemon Drops' is a good trailer for containers.

The fragrant flowers of Cestrum species were more protective of their precious plants from the Victorian era. Nocturnum Cestrum is also known as "Night Jessamine" because of its intoxicating fragrance of night. Cestrum others are prized for their attractive flowers visually Cestrum'Smithii has clearly roses.

Heliotrope is an ideal subject Greenhouse - flowers range from white to deepest purple - and they give off a fragrance line, and, vanilla powder for babies. Heliotropium 'Alba' can have vanilla, fresh scent. Heliotropium Iowa certainly has deep purple flowers with a fragrance that is both beautiful and complex.

Jasmine Most are grown for their pungent, sweet-scented flowers. Jasminum polyanthum is covered by the middle of winter with small waxy white flowers emit a fragrance knockout. Jasminum officinale 'Fiona Sunrise' golden foliage adds to the attractiveness of its fragrant white flowers.

Osmanthus fragrans is one of my favorites, and its flowering period is ideal for winter greenhouse. In appearance, the leaves and flowers are not remarkable, but the exquisite perfume of the small, creamy white flowers is remarkable.

Plumbago was a popular resident of Victorian glasshouses, and should be in yours too. Its powder-blue flowers like phlox are almost continuous. Auriculata Plumbago "Powder Blue" is a newly selected shape with an exceptionally strong and amazing ice blue flowers.

Tulbaghia, also known as "society garlic" for the scent of its foliage grass - which is indeed reminiscent of the onion family - was surprisingly fragrant flowers that make a welcome contribution to the greenhouse for the winter . Nocturnes Tulbaghia cominsii combines fragrant white flowers with a beautiful sea-green foliage.

When the busy months seems overwhelming, not a moment in the greenhouse and take a deep breath. This wonderful fragrance, with its promise of rebirth of greenery, could carry you through the darkest of the season until we can all outdoor garden again.

For plants that bloom during the winter, as well as detailed information on how to cultivate them, see the book by Alice, "Bulbs in the basement, geraniums on the sill, and its Web site, alicemcgowan.com