Patio Plants Ideal for your Winter Garden
Add some wonderful bright colours to your Winter Garden, with our selection of patio plants available now at Powerscourt Garden Pavilion in County Wicklow!
Mini Cyclamen
Mini cyclamen are autumn flowering plants that provide bright colour through the winter months and are ideal for patio pots, window boxes or graves. Mini cyclamen are very easy to care for;simply dead head old flowers and don’t let them dry out.
Primroses
Primroses will give you excellent colour from now until May and are winter hardy. New flowers keep replacing the older ones . They are brilliant for pots containers and hanging baskets. You could also add spring flowering bulbs for extra colour in spring .
Violas
Usually a quiet time in the garden, winter offers little in the way of colour. Viola plants give you a range of colours, perfect for brightening up your garden through the winter months. Viola plants will survive even the coldest temperatures and will produce beautiful flowers from September to spring.
Ornamental Cabbage
Ornamental cabbages are fantastic winter / hardy colour for pots. The colder the winter the brighter the colour. Add singly to mixed pots or place several in pots together. Ornamental cabbages give colour from September to February.
Heather
Autumn and winter flowering heathers are very popular for window boxes, patio pots and garden planting. They come in a wide variety of flowers and foliage colours and like a peaty compost such as brown gold.