22 Winter Flowers That Thrive During the Coldest Months of the Year

When the weather outside is cold and frightful, nothing is more delightful than a garden adorned with winter-blooming plants. But it doesnt mean that your garden has to appear bare, brown, and depressing. Many of winter colorful flowers bloom during the darkest, coldest times of the year. Is it possible to grow flowers in the winter? That depends entirely on where you live.

Winter Jasmine: English-speaking people in many parts of the world refer to just about any shrub or vine that bears fragrant, star-shaped flowers as "jasmine," and they are usually correct. There are over 200 species of jasmine, and many of them have been cultivated far from their native lands, which extend from Indo-Malaysia to northern Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. This article, however, is about only one of those species, winter jasmine, which originates from China but is now widely planted in temperate climates on both sides of the Equator.