Gardening expert Anya Lautenbach named her five favourite flowers to grow during winter (Image: Getty)
A gardening expert has shared the five that everyone should be growing over the coming months.
With the mercury levels set to stoop below freezing, enthusiast, Anya Lautenbach revealed the top five flowers to have in your garden.
Writing in her newly released book, The Money-Saving Gardener, she explained how is still a perfect time to make full use of our gardens, as she named her five favourite flowers: “I personally love hellebores, Algerian iris (Iris unguicularis), Hepatica, the climber Clematis cirrhosa, and Erica carnea.”
Anya also advised gardeners to focus on other areas of the garden during the colder months (Image: Getty)
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While she said that winter is still a time to grow some of our favourite flowers, she claimed that there are plenty of other ways to make our gardens look their best during the colder months.
The expert added: “And, when flowers are relatively few, it’s worth focusing on other areas of interest, like the textured bark of Prunus serrula, which looks magical when catching some late afternoon sun or meeting the frost, or the fiery coloured stems of dogwoods.
“With a few well-chosen additions, there’s no reason for your garden not to grab your attention, even in the depths of winter. With a few well-chosen additions, there’s no reason for your garden not to grab your attention, even in the depths of winter.”
It seems like one of Anya’s winter flower choices is particularly popular, as the iconic former presenter, also singling out the Iris unguicularis as his favourite to grow during the cold season.
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Writing about the flower in his The Gardener’s Almanac book he said: “It sits like an unruly rug of linear leaves for most of the year, and then up through that haystack of foliage in December and January push spears of palest amethyst, which open to reveal the most delicate of lavender blue iris flowers that look as though a puff of wind would destroy them.”
Besides growing some of your favourite flowers, Anya also emphasised the importance of making sure that gardens are preserved as the freezing weather takes hold, saying: “Order seeds for next year (if you were unable to collect your own in autumn, take hardwood cuttings of fruit and ornamental shrubs, take root cuttings of plants such as echinacea and verbascum, keep pruned branches to use as plant support in the spring and store tender plants in a frost-free environment.”