{"id":12659,"date":"2021-02-01T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=12659"},"modified":"2021-01-25T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T20:04:15","slug":"%ef%bb%bfseven-shrubs-that-bloom-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2021\/02\/01\/%ef%bb%bfseven-shrubs-that-bloom-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffSeven Shrubs That Bloom In February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Edgeworthia chrysantha<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you have ever dreamt of creating a year-round landscape garden, here are\u00a0seven\u00a0fine shrubs to start with. These shrubs bloom in late winter and are also important to early insect pollinators — native ground bees, bumble bees, and butterflies. In USDA hardiness zones 7-9, winter temperatures begin to moderate and some shrubs burst into floral life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese paper bush<\/strong> (Edgeworthia chrysantha<\/em>) – a deciduous suckering shrub that typically grows to 4-6 feet tall and wide. In February
Tiny, apetalous, tubular, yellow flowers are densely packed flower clusters open in February. Short-petioled, lanceolate-oblong, dark green 3-5 inch long leaves are attractive (zones 6b-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carolina Jessamine<\/strong> (Gelsemium sempervirens<\/em>) – sweetly scented, golden yellow flowers cover the cascading, fine textured foliage from February to April. Moderately deer resistant (zones 6-9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese Witchhazel<\/strong> (Hamamelis x intermedia<\/em>) represent crossing two Asian witchhazels (H. japonica<\/em> x H. mollis<\/em>). Plant grows 6-12 feet tall and wide and suckers freely at the base. Recommended cultivars are \u2018Diane\u2019, \u2018Jelena\u2019, \u2018Orange Beauty\u2019, \u2018Primavera\u2019 and \u2018Westerstede\u2019. Moderately deer resistant (zones 5-9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daphne odora<\/em> ‘Aureomarginata’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Winter honeysuckle<\/strong> (Lonicera fragrantissima<\/em>) \u2013 small fragrant white flowers appear in midwinter on this 10-12 foot tall vigorous shrub. Note: rated \u201cinvasive Florida and Texas where winter temperatures are mild; not so much in zone 7 and colder areas further north (zone 4-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wintersweet<\/strong> (Chimonanthus praecox<\/em>) – highly fragrant yellow\/slight red blotched flowers appear in late January; prefers rich, acidic, moist, well-drained soils in part to full shade; 12 feet by 10 feet deciduous moderately drought tolerant shrub (Zones 6 to 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweetbox<\/strong> (Sarcococca hookeriana<\/em> ‘Humilis’) – a suckering 4-6-foot evergreen shrub with numerous small fragrant white flowers set against glossy boxwood-like foliage; spreads very slowly by stolons in shady landscapes (Zones 6 to 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter daphne <\/strong>(Daphne odora<\/em>) – an evergreen, densely branched,
3-4 feet tall shrub with rose-purple or white, fragrant flowers in mid- to late winter. Fragrant 2-inch long tubular flowers are a half-inch across and are usually white; pink or lavender varieties also available; long blooming in late winter and early spring (Zones 7-9). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have ever dreamt of creating a year-round landscape garden, here are\u00a0seven\u00a0fine shrubs to start with. These shrubs bloom in late winter and are also important to early insect pollinators — native ground bees, bumble bees, and butterflies. In USDA hardiness zones 7-9, winter temperatures begin to moderate and some shrubs burst into floral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1218,1319,1351,662,144,1362,1498,645,666,1384,800,604,665,1324,1525,1012,991,1305,853,551,1476,627,843,601,729,777,630,646,884,7,708,655,455,1400,848],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12960,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions\/12960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}