Bring Color To Your Winter Garden With These 7 Plants

[@2teaspoonsforme]

Beautiful video. Ah, the anticipation of spring 🌹🌼☀️🌞 I like those Dusty Millers!

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks Carly! 😊 Yes, the anticipation is real even though I’m trying to be patient! 🌼🤣

[@kristywhited8857]

Chose candytuft for my small (OK, tiny) mailbox garden. Thought it would be the perfect plant. Deer have mowed it to the ground. I assume it will live and perhaps bounce back in spring, but for now it's deer food. I'm so disappointed with my choice. Maybe I can switch to the heath. Thanks for all the suggestions!

[@GardenSanity]

Oh Kristy, that’s such a shame the deer are feasting on your Candytuft. It’s considered a deer resistant perennial, however deer will eat just about anything if hungry enough. ☹️ Winter-blooming Heaths are also deer resistant, so fingers crossed you will have better luck. 🤞❤️

[@doreen263]

where in SJ are u? just curious. i’m in sicklerville. same zone. loving all of your videos. so knowledgeable and helpful. i have wet area problem too so i really enjoyed those videos and plants u suggested. keep them coming please!

[@GardenSanity]

Hi Doreen -- I'm in Little Egg Harbor very near the coast, so east of you! 👋 Thanks for your feedback, and yes wet areas can be so frustrating but I'm thrilled I've found plants that truly can handle the wet! We've had so much rain this Winter, that I want to put a giant sponge on top of my garden beds to soak up the water and ring it out elsewhere! 🧽 💦 😂 If my gardens could talk they would be saying, "Enough already!"

[@lindapearson3340]

When I purchased my Blue Star Juniper 2 years ago it was very small so I can not wait to see mine grow up like yours. You are the one who inspired me to get one and I love it. I would love to get the Candytuft but so far I can not find it here in Zone 5. Your Kramer's Red Winter Heath are beautiful. We can not grow them here so I will enjoy yours when you show them to us. I love your garden. Keep up the great work that you do in your garden. Can not wait to see what new plants your are going to plant this year. Happy Gardening.

[@GardenSanity]

Hi Linda! It is really fun to watch the Blue Star Juniper slowly develop into an interesting shape. 🙂 I have found Candytuft in big box garden centers usually in the beginning of Spring, but also in catalogs and online. Bluestone Perennials has a few varieties but the pot sizes will be small. (But their quality of plants is top-notch.) I’m working on some new garden beds for this year, so there will be some fun new plants! ❤️

[@johncontract7855]

You sold me on the Winter Heath Laura! When I look online is it the same as Heather? And it's different than Wigelia correct ? Did you purchase online or at a local?

[@GardenSanity]

Hi John - you’ll love it! Sometimes the names (heath and heather) appear to both be used - BUT - heath blooms in Winter/Spring and Heather blooms in Summer/Fall in general terms. (I have an entire video on Kramer’s Red Winter Heath linked above and show the difference between heath and heather in that video.) I have previously found mine at the big box garden centers in early Spring, but most recently bought mine from GardenGoodsDirect (online) and loved the quality and size. They’re in Maryland, so shipping isn’t far and just saw the Heaths are currently on sale! 👍😀

[@TakTak-ks7ur]

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[@lindakay8171]

Just found your channel and never knew about the Geum plant. I just saw the Kramer's Red Winter Heath at our local Home Depot. Since I've learned about it I will be heading back to purchase a couple plants, the color is really eye catching. I would love the Candytuft but we are in a wooded area with lots of deer so I better just enjoy pictures of it. I'm also in Zone 7 in NE PA.

[@sammysworld5485]

Hi Laura. I grew my Geum Tempo Rose in a container here in zone 7 & they did fantastic. Yes they are evergreens. All I had to do was cut off the tattered leaves. I also gave them espoma plant tone fertilizer for a good Spring boost.

[@willaerley7140]

I would add Coral Bells as #7. I’m zone 6 and they still look pretty good. Caramel is a bit faded ,but Peachberry Ice and Carnival Watermelon are hanging in there.

[@GardenSanity]

Great suggestion! Some varieties seem to stand up to deep freezes better than others -- I swear the freeze locks in the color with some of them! 😀

[@JoyfulJerseyGardening]

Love that winter heath! Especially paired with the juniper. Just a beautiful combination. I actually just saw winter heath at Bob’s Garden Center last weekend. I was tempted to buy it, and after seeing yours I may have to go back! Have you been to Bob’s?

[@GardenSanity]

Glad you like the juniper/heath combination! 👍 It’s nice in the Summer too because the heath gets a bright green color for the season. Yes - Bob’s is a fantastic nursery! I don’t get down there as often as I wish, but I have many plants from there including my Magnolia Jane tree, Shooting Star Hellebores, Blue Star Junipers, Helene Rose of Sharon, Golden Euonymus, Little Quick Fires and Little Lime Hydrangeas…and that’s just off the top of my head! 😂 Hope you can buy the heath - keep me posted. 😀

[@JoyfulJerseyGardening]

Well I’d say you’ve definitely taken advantage of visiting Bob’s!! 😂 I’ve actually only visited in the winter, when I’m really needing a plant fix. I have numerous nurseries close by that I frequent the rest of the year. I’m going to make a trip there this planting season for sure.

[@GardenSanity]

@JoyfulJerseyGardening Same here: closer nurseries, but I also order plants a lot too if I want something specific and don’t want to drive to several nurseries looking for it (which I’ve done many times). 😂