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Snowdrops are beginning to flower. You can enjoy them in the Mauoleum area as well as several other locations around the Garden.
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On warm days you can also enjoy some 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.
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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. On very cold days the petals may look shriveled, but as the temperature warms they come back to life!
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You can also still 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.
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Heavenly bamboo still has some attractive fruit and 'Wintergreen' boxwoods have small but fragrant blossoms. On warm days you can enjoy some pansy flowers.
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Some plants with very handsome winter bark to take note of are Japanese stewartia, paperbark maple and river birch.
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Don’t miss the shrub dogwoods, which are adding bright colors to the winter landscape.
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In the Linnean House you can enjoy camellias as well as cyclamens and impatiens. The fragrant olive still has a few sweet smelling flowers.
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