Strat's Place .. The Fall and Winter Garden

For most of us, fall and winter are challenging times in the garden. We try to find plants that will continue to add interest to our gardens in these times when things seem to be barren. That is the reason we've started this section.

We wanted to share ideas on plants that add color and/or texture to our fall and winter gardens. Just like all of our other sections ... we rely on you, our readers to send in pictures so that they can be shared with others. Please look around and send us some pictures of plants that you feel really add to your Fall and Winter garden.

You can either email your pictures to us ( in any format ) or, if you don't have access to a scanner, we'll be glad to scan them in for you.

This will be an onging effort through the fall and winter ..
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	November, December, January, February - Camelias make great bursts of color here in NC
	November - The burning bush gives a vibrant splash of red
	Grasses .. Grasses ... to us, these are indespensible plants for the garden. They give cool, colored texture during the year and then in the fall they shoot up their plumages to offer wonderful textures in the fall and winter.
	November .. The Ginko tree gives off a splash of color
	January .. Heath offers color and nice cuttings .. comes in pink and white
	January - Heliobores are wonderful winter plants .. their range for green on green to white to violet. All have a wonderful drooping habit the makes you want to peak under them to see the flowers
	January - Scabiosa Columbaria, shoots up wonderful, light purple/pink flowers for the low growing leaves ( about 6-8" tall )
	January - this great "stick" Viburnum shoot out these flowers before any leave appear ..
	January , February - Jasminum Nudiforum ( Winter Jasmine ) burst forth in these yellow flowers set agains bright green branches. A great plus is that this plant is super easy to grow and requires NO maintenance.