Plants Flowering in December

Oleifera hybrid. Bright pink semi-double or paeony form with wavy margins

Oleifera hybrid. Semi-double white flowers. Vigorous upright habit

Oleifera hybrid. Pink semi-double

Cuspidate x C. saluenensis. Similar to 'Cornish Snow' but with delicate pink flowers

Small, single white with pink. Yellow anthers.

Larger flowered form, tinged pink with maroon spots

Winter flowering bell-shaped flowers of creamy-white

Large creamy-white unspotted flowers

Bronze tinged foliage in winter, flowers pale yellow spotted reddish purple

Golden yellow scented 'pea' flowers

Palest creamy yellow form with grey-green foliage

Distinct cream variegated foliage with bright yellow flowers

All Flower OCT-APR

Clusters of drooping greenish white or cream flowers

Tubular dusky red flowers

Two-tone pink-yellow tubular flowers. Frost hardy

Slender pink and cream flowers

Hardy, small leaved, compact shrub. Pale green flowers in winter

(Genista 'Porlock') - scented yellow flowers, strong vigorous grower

Best grown against a hot wall where its hawthorn-like flowers, will after a hot summer, produce globular yellow fruits. These are edible in hotter climates

(syn. Philotheca myoporoides) - Aromatic dark green leaves. Fragrant pinkish-white flowers

Longer stalked, less glossy leaves than F. japonica. A recently introduced Taiwanese species which is frost hardy to -10° and has made a very attractive free standing shrub here

Long grey-green catkins (male)

Male form with extra long catkins

Wavy, round, evergreen leaves. Clusters of pendant flowers in a mixture of hues, orange, yellow and pink

('Compacta') - prostrate, dwarf form with an attractive bushy habit and pinkish red and cream flowers.

Dark green needle-like leaves and flowers pink and cream

Very hardy species which forms a bushy shrub with silvery leaves. Long red hanging racemes of flowers

This species which is South African grows to around 2 feet and has green flower spikes from August

Fragrant, pale yellow