Winter in Andy’s Garden

Plants that look their best this time of year

My name is Andy Schenck , and I garden in Malvern , Pennsylvania ( a suburb of Philadelphia ) in Zone 6B/7 ( depending on the wintertime ) . My garden is called Look Again Garden ( named by my protagonist David Culp ) . It is a collector ’s garden full of “ heading of one . ” wintertime is an amazing clip for theconifersandbroadleaf evergreensto effulgence . Here is a sampling of plants that were photographed the week of December 12 .

genus Persea palustris(Zones 7–11 ) , which is a dauntless relative of the avocado native to thesoutheastern United States .

Camelliajaponica‘Korean fervor ’ ( Zones 7–11 ) is a vigorous selection from Korea that is one of the most cold - hardy varieties of the species .

Sciadopitysverticillata‘Ossorio Gold ’ ( Zones 5–9 ) is a pick of theJapanese umbrella pinewith long golden needles . Umbrella pines are never common in the landscape , though they are very beautiful , and this gold form is even rare and mayhap even more lovely .

Tsugaseiboldii(southern Nipponese hemlock , Zones 6–8 ) is slow growing and shows great immunity to wooly adelgid , an invading insect that is doing great terms to our native North American hemlock species .

Cryptomeriajaponica‘Rasen ’ ( zone 5–9 ) is a selection of theJapanese cedarthat is an upright open grower with awing twisted leaf .

mayhap even cooler and more strange looking isCryptomeriajaponica‘Cristata ’ , which is smaller in height with rafts of fasciation or cresting of the leaf

Chimonanthus praecox(Zones 7–9 ) is afragrant , winter - bloomingshrub that starts flower in earlyDecember . Though the flowers are modest and delicate , they have a powerfully delicious olfactory property .

Thujopsisdolobrata‘Variegata ’ ( zone 5–9 ) is a greatvariegated coniferfor light tincture , and , even better , it demo secure impedance to deer browsing .

Pinuspalustris(longleaf pine , Zones 7–9 ) is native to southeastern North America but seems to fly high in Pennsylvania . This is a new works , about four eld old .

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