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Plants in Bloom for January 7 - January 13

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The warm weather has brought out some very early flowers on the Japanese apricot in the Chinese garden. You can also enjoy the bright yellow flowers of the winter jasmine. In the Japanese garden some pussy willows are just starting to come out.


Pussy willow Salix discolor  (lf)
Japanese Garden

A number of the witch-hazels are in flower. You will see some x intermedia hybrids in flower as well as the Ozark and Chinese witch-hazels.


You can also enjoy the sweet scent of winter and fragrant honeysuckles and the stunning Christmas rose. Flower buds are already beginning to appear on the stinking hellebore.


Heavenly bamboo and hollies still have berries and a number of pansies are in flower.


Some plants with noteworthy winter bark are Japanese stewartia, paperbark maple and river birch.


Colorful bark on many of the shrub dogwoods adds bright colors to winter.


In the Linnean House you can enjoy some early camellias as well as cyclamens and impatiens.

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