Winter-flowering Shrubs

Gardeners, plant collectors, horticulturists, and landscape designers will find a valuable resource in this carefully selected plant directory of best performing winter-flowering shrubs. Readers will find daphnes, viburnums, witch hazels, and camellias to suit every taste and garden situation, as well as information about how to help their choice winter-flowering shrubs flourish from November to March. Tips on combining winter-flowering shrubs, using winter sunlight to backlight choice specimens, and getting the right balance of complementary plants complete this practical and inspiring guide. Whether looking to extend a plant collection or create a winter garden, collectors and gardeners alike will delight in the possibilities available for blooms and scents in colder climates.

Media reviews of this book:

"Every garden can benefit from the element of surprise provided by the plants described here."

—Rob Cassy, Bookseller, Fall 2005

"The sweet smell of daphnes and witch hazels nearly drifts off the pages ... this book reminds us how lucky we are to garden in a climate where we can have some plant or another in bloom every day of the year."

—Valerie Easton, Seattle Times, September 16, 2005

"Buffin possesses an intimate knowledge of the surprisingly subtle yet magical displays that characterize gardens in wintertime. The cultivation tips accompanying entries will inspire, inform, and prepare gardeners looking for exceptional specimens to incorporate all-year-round interest."

—Alice Joyce, Booklist, September 1, 2005

"Whether looking to extend a plant collection or create a winter garden from scratch, collectors and gardeners alike will delight in the tantalizing winter landscape evoked here."

—Rainy Side Gardeners, May 8, 2006

"This well laid out and amply illustrated guide contains both an excellent section on the design of the winter garden, as well as a thorough A–Z compendium of winter flowering shrubs."

—Michael Weishan, Michael Weishan's World of Gardening, February 2006

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Customer reviews of this book:

"Wonderful, well put together, and very understandable. Thank you!"

—Meribeth M. from Portland, Oregon, October 26, 2005

An excerpt from this book:

Berries, nuts, and fruits are often associated with autumn, the season of mellow fruitfulness, a time when a breathtaking array of fruits ripen, providing a feast for wildlife. Although many fruits are gobbled up quickly, some remain deep into the winter and will remain for our pleasure occasionally into the spring. Fruits come in a spectrum of colours, many of them vivid and most unusual in the plant world, from acrid yellow to metallic blue, from porcelain to the more traditional reds, yellows, and oranges. Some fruits are edible, others are not, and they are borne variously on trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants and climbing vines ...

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