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Eastern witch-hazel is still flowering in a few locations and the fruit on the heavenly bamboo is noteworthy. Pansies continue to be very colorful.
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Fruit on hollies is still very attractive. Also take note of the fruit on the coralberry, which is a Missouri native.
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The ornamental grasses remain lovely. Miscanthus will display their showy panicles until late winter. Some iteas still have colorful leaves.
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Plants with other noteworty winter features are the berries on winterberries and the attractive bark on the paperbark maple and river birch.
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Colorful bark on many of the shrub dogwoods add bright colors to winter.
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In the Linnean House you can enjoy some early camellias. Some cyclamens are also beginning to bloom.
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Now is also a great time to take a closer look at many of the superb evergreens growing in the Garden. The pines in the Japanese Garden are always picturesque. Norway spruce is a good large growing evegreen for the area and sawara cypress makes a dependable evegreen under 6 feet tall.
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