Winter-Spring (Jan-Mar)

Berberis thunbergii, yellow foliage (zone 2)

Ceanothus, blue flowers (zone 4)

Cordyline, dark red foliage (zone 2)

Cotoneaster, red berries, white flowers (zone 9)

Euonymus variegated foliage (zones 2, 4, 6, 7, 9)

- see Ceanothus photo

Forsythia, yellow flowers over wall (zone 2)

Helleborus, Corsica, lime green flowers (zone 6)

Helleborus Orient, Lenten rose, ‘spotted’, pink-red-yellow flowers (zones 4 and 9)

Lily of the Valley, white flowers (zone 7)

Pieris, forest-flame, red-yellow-green foliage (zone 8)

Primrose, mixed colours (zones 4, 6, 8, 9)

Pyracantha (zone 4) white flowers, red berries