Winter bedding plants

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Hi,

Any ideas on colourful winter bedding plants if they exist? I've got my head around summers plants but this will be my first winter trying them out.

Thanks

I have deep red and also white cyclamen. Their dark green, heart shaped leaves make a lovely covering. They must be the hardy variety though, but they are perennial and seem to spread each year. They're really Christmassy and beautiful.

Agree about the cyclamen - they are my favourite.

You see a lot of bedding pansies about now, but I find they don’t flower when it’s cold (am in Cheshire, so quite northerly). The smaller violas do better in the winter here (but cyclamen are hardier still).

Right now lve got autumn plants flowering in pots by the back door - sedum, dahlias and white Michaelmas daisies. They won’t last the winter but they are perennials - I’ll plant the sedum and daisies back in the garden once they finished and will keep the dahlia tubers until next year.
I’ll be digging up a couple of hellebores from the garden to put in pots once winter gets underway too.

Fantastic - deep red and white is what I'm after so cyclamen it is then. Honeywork, I'm in Cheshire too - weather is looking lovely on Wednesday :-)

Ive got pink/purple ornamental cabbage in window box with cyclamen and parsley - a nice cheap green filler