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Winter flowers

Winter blooms are revered for their sparsity, adding pinpricks of irises and crocuses do best in a sunny, sheltered spot, but if one is not available, they thrive in pots. No winter garden is complete without hellebores, and with hybrids self-seeding freely, each year brings new surprises. Then there are wallflowers, daphne, Christmas box, wintersweet and witch hazels to add fragrance, nature’s ploy to attract pollinating insects.

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