Around the corner behind Lee Hall lies a little jewel box of a garden, and it sparkles most brightly during the gloomy days of winter. The Winter Garden is a quiet spot tucked-away from the main College Gardens. It's a spot where students and other Wolfson members can often be found sitting on a bench reading or just enjoying the colours of flowers, bark and berries. Scroll down for more images of the plants found here.
TREES |
SCENTED SHRUBS |
| Acer x conspicuum ‘Phoenix’ (hybrid) (pink-scarlet branches/buds/snakeskin bark) | Chimonanthus praecox (wintersweet) |
| A. davidii ‘George Forest’ (snakeskin bark, purple) | Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ |
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A. griseum paperbark maple |
D. mezereum Rubra |
| A. palmatum ‘Orange Dream’ Japanese maple | D. odora ‘Aureomarginata’ |
| A. Sango-Kaku coral bark maple | Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’ and ‘Aphrodite’ (witch hazel) |
| Betula albosinensis ‘Septentrionalis’ Chinese red bar birch (pink-cream bark) | Osmanthus x burkwoodii |
| B. nigra ‘Heritage’ river birch (cream shaggy bark) | Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ |
| B. utilis ‘Forest Blush’ (pink bark) | Sarcococca hookeriana ‘Purple Stem’ (sweet box) |
| Fraxinus excelsior 'Jaspidea' Golden ash | Viburnum x burkwoodii |
| Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ sweet gum | V. x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ |
| Pink Japanese Prunus grafted onto Serrula trunk | V. x b. ‘Charles Lamont’ |
| Prunus incisa ‘Kojo-no-mai’ (contorted stems) | V. plicatum ‘Maresii’ snow shrub/wedding cake shrub |
| P. ‘Tai-haku’ great white cherry |
COLOURFUL SHRUBS |
| P. serrula Tibetan cherry (shiny mahogany bark) | Aucuba japonica ‘Crotonifolia’ |
| Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer ‘(fastigiata) ornamental pear | Berberis darwinii Darwin's barberry |
| Salix x sepulcralis ‘Erythroflexuosa’ willow (orange) | Choisia ‘Sundance’ Mexican orange |
| Tilia cordata ‘Winter Orange’ small-leaved lime | Corokia ‘Frosted Chocolate’ and ‘Banana Royal’ |
| Eucalyptus gunnii (pollarded) cider gum | |
DWARF CONIFERS |
Euonymus ‘Emerald and Gold’ |
| Abies nordmanniana ‘Golden Spreader’ Nordmann fir | Hebe ‘Red edge’ and ‘Silver dollar’ |
| Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Pembury Blue’ Lawson's cypress | Ilex ‘Golden King’, aquifolium ‘Handsworth New Silver’, and ‘Ferrox argentia’ hedgehog holly |
| C. pisifera ‘Aurea’ Sawara cypress | I. crenata ‘Golden Gem’ Japanese golden bBox |
| Cryptomeria japonica ‘Sekkan-Sugi’ Japanese cedar | Lophomyrtus x raphii ‘Magic Dragon’ and ‘Black Pearl’ |
| Juniperus ‘Sulphur Spray’ | Nandina domestica ‘Firepower’ (scarlet), ‘Obsessed’ (purple), ‘Twilight’ (variegated), ‘Gulf stream’ (orange), and ‘Lemon and Lime’ heavenly bamboo |
| J. horizontalis ‘Ice Blue’ creeping juniper | Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Goshiki’ and ‘Variegata’ holly olive |
| J. procumbens ‘Variegata’ variegated Japanese juniper | Phormium ‘Cream Delight’, ‘Sundowner’, ‘Tricolour’, ‘Jester’, ‘Platts Black’ and ‘Maori Sunrise’ New Zealand flax |
| Picea pungens 'Globosa' blue spruce | Photinia ‘Pink Crispy’, ‘Pink Marble’ and ‘Red Robin’ |
| P. p. ‘Hoopsii’ Colorado spruce | Pittosporum ‘Tom Thumb’, ‘Elizabeth’, ‘Warnham Gold’, ‘Irene Patterson’, ‘Golf Ball’ and ‘Collaig Silver’ |
| Pinus mugo ‘Wintergold’ Mugo pine | Taxus standshii flagpole yew |
| P. sylvestris ‘Watereri’ Walter pine | Yuca baccata ‘Banana’ |
| Thuja plicata ‘Goldy’ western red cedar | SHRUBS WITH COLOURFUL STEMS |
| T. ‘Rheingold’ and ‘Fire chief’ | Cornus ‘Annie’s Orange’ (bright orange) bloodtwig dogwood |
| T. smaragd ‘Variegata’ and ‘Aurea’ | C. alba ‘Kesselringii’ (purple-black) osier dogwood |
GROUND COVER |
C. a. sibirica (scarlet) |
| Carex ‘Frosted Curls’ | C. sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’ (orange-pink) |
| C. oshimensis ‘Everillo’,‘Evergold’, ‘Everest’ and ‘Eversheen’ Japanese sedge | C. sericea ‘Flaviramea’ (yellow) |
| C. testacea ‘Prairie Fire’ sedge | Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’ (Corkscrew Hazel) |
| Dryopteris erythrosora rosy buckler fern | Jasmine nudiflorum (bright green) |
| Erica darleyensis ‘Darley Dale’ and ‘Kramers Red’ heather | Phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘Aureocaulis’ golden crookstem bamboo (yellow canes with green grooves) |
| Hakonechloa ‘All Gold’ | P. bambusoides ‘All Gold’ |
| Helleborus niger Christmas rose | P. nigra black-caned bamboo |
| H. orientalis lenten rose | Rubus ‘Golden Vale’ (chalk white) |
| Heuchera ‘Blackberry jam’, ‘Citronelle’ and ‘Forever purple’ | R. niveus (polished purple) |
| Heucherella ’Redstone falls’, ‘Yellowstone Falls’, ‘Sweet Tea’, ‘Solar Eclipse’, Tapestry’, ‘Brassy Lantern’ and ‘Buttered Rum’ | R. phoenicolasium Japanese wineberry (red) |
| Iris unguicularis snow iris | BERRIES; |
| Libertia peregrinans ‘Gold finger’ | Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii ‘Profusion’ (bright purple) |
| Liriope muscari ‘Big blue’ lily turf | Ilex holly (red) |
| L. m. ‘Monroe White’ | Sorbus ‘Vilmorinii’ (pink-red) |
| Luzula sylvatica ’Aurea’ great wood rush | Symphoricarpus ‘Pink Snowberry’ |
| Ophiopogan planiscapus ‘nigrascens’ black mondo grass | |
| Primula vulgaris primrose | CLIMBERS |
| Pulmonaria lungwort (silver leaf; red, white, pink and blue flowering) | Clematis cirrhosa ‘Freckles’ |
| Vinca minor ‘Illumination’ | Hedera colchica ‘Dentata Variegata’ Persian ivy |
| BULBS | Jasmine ‘Fiona Sunrise’ jasmine |
| Chinodoxa glory of the snow (white, pink and blue) | |
| Crocus (white, purple, blue) | |
| Cyclamen (pink) | |
| Galanthus nivalis (snowdrops) | |
| G. Elwessii | |
| Leucojum (snowflakes) | |
| Muscari ‘Mount Hood’ grape hyacinth (sky-blue, white tip) | |
| M. ‘Siberian Tiger’ (white) | |
| M. ‘Valerie Finnis’ (pale blue) | |
| Narcissus 'Tete a Tete', 'Jetfire', 'Minnow' and 'February Gold' (dwarf daffodils) | |
| Puschkinia libanotica Russian snowdrop (white, blue stripes) | |
| Scilla sibirica Siberian squill (blue) | |
| Tulipa ‘Ballerina’ |
