Which plants grow fast in winter?
To get a jump-start on your garden and grow some fast-growing, cold-tolerant plants you’re going to want to try out some radishes, turnips, sugar snap peas, kale and spinach. The cool season is your time to grow arugula, spring mix, spinach, radishes, carrots, and sugar snap peas. Pack all your leafy greens in around the outside of your bed. These are the plants you’ll pick from the most because they’re the most prolific producers, so you want them to be within easy reach.
What plant lasts the longest, annual or perennial?
Perennials have a longer lifespan than annuals and may bloom for several weeks or months each year. Lavender, jasmine, wisteria, peonies, and ornamental grasses are popular perennial choices for gardens, providing consistent beauty year after year. Autumn and spring normally provide the most optimum conditions, giving your perennial plants the chance to root out and settle into the ground before the dryer months arrive.Practically, the best times to plant perennials are spring or fall. These seasons allow plants to get settled and grow new roots before summer’s hot, dry weather arrives. Planting in summer is okay, but you’ll need to water frequently.
What are the best plants to plant during winter?
Pansies and violas are strong cold weather contenders, as are dusty miller and flowering cabbage or kale. Colorful mimulus, nemesia, diascia, painted tongue and snapdragon can also hold their own in containers or planting beds. Plants for winter baskets: Crocus, Gaultheria, Iris reticulata cultivars, Hedera (ivy) – either variegated or plain, Carex (ornamental sedge), Primula (primulas and polyanthus), Cyclamen (small-flowered cyclamen), Viola (winter pansies and viola) and Erica carnea (winter-flowering heathers).