{"id":9679,"date":"2018-01-27T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=9679"},"modified":"2017-11-12T20:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T01:46:18","slug":"seven-shrubs-that-bloom-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2018\/01\/27\/seven-shrubs-that-bloom-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Shrubs That Bloom In February*"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daphne odora ‘Aureomarginata’ at Biltmore Estates, Asheville, NC<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hamamelis x ‘Primavera’ in February 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

If you garden in zones 6 to 8, \u00a0there are a number of shrubs that bloom in the wintry month of February. Usually, a warm period lasting a few days to a week may spur flower buds to open. Nightly lows may cause some flower injury, but additional\u00a0flowers soon follow. All seven listed below are long-lived and are highly dependable.<\/p>\n

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

Chinese Witchhazel (Hamamelis x intermedia<\/em>) represent crossing two Asian witchhazels (H. japonica<\/em> x H. mollis<\/em>). Shrubs grow 6-12 feet tall and wide and may sucker 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

Chinese Paper bush (Edgeworthia chrysantha<\/em>) \u00a0is a deciduous suckering shrub that typically grows to 4-6 feet tall and as wide. Short-petioled, lanceolate-oblong, dark green 3-5 inch long leaves are attractive in the woodland garden (zones 6-9).<\/p>\n

Winter Honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima<\/em>) \u2013small fragrant white flowers appear in midwinter on this 10-12 foot tall vigorous shrub. Note<\/u>: rated \u201cinvasive Florida and Texas where winter temperatures are mild; not so much in zone 7 and colder areas further north (zones 4-8).<\/p>\n

Winter Daphne (Daphne odora<\/em>) 3-4 feet tall evergreen, densely branched shrub with rose-purple or white, fragrant flowers in mid- to late winter (zones 7-9). Fragrant 2 inch long tubular flowers are a half-inch across and are usually white but may include pink or lavender hues; flowers bloom in winter and early spring.<\/p>\n

Fragrant Wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox<\/em>) produces highly fragrant yellow\/slight red blotched flowers in late January is at home in a rich, acidic, moist, well-drained soils in part to full shade. 12 feet by 10 feet deciduous shrub; established shrub is moderately drought tolerant (zones 6 to 9).<\/p>\n

Sweetbox (Sarcococca hookeriana<\/em> ‘Humilis’) is a suckering 4-6-foot evergreen shrub with fragrant white flowers set against glossy boxwood-like foliage. It spreads very slowly by stolons in a shady landscape area (zones 6 to 9).<\/p>\n

* Blooms are visited by early pollinating native bees and butterflies.\u00a0Hungry bees will be pleased to find nectar in late days of winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  If you garden in zones 6 to 8, \u00a0there are a number of shrubs that bloom in the wintry month of February. Usually, a warm period lasting a few days to a week may spur flower buds to open. Nightly lows may cause some flower injury, but additional\u00a0flowers soon follow. All seven listed below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1124,747,1319,749,144,1362,674,666,665,10,1012,991,1305,853,551,843,1060,601,777,630,705,646,884,7,1,1222,1401,708,250,455,1400,848],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679"}],"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=9679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9684,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions\/9684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}