Winter pot plants

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I'm about to get rid of my summer bedding plants from our pots. What can I replace them with? What is VERY easy to not kill during the colder months? I'd like some colour if possible. Thank you.

Winter pansies and cyclamen are the most reliable plants for winter.

Thank you. How much watering do they need?

Not very much . I water mine when they go in and then only if it is very dry or warm. Once a week will be plenty when it is dry not at all if it rains.

I have had winter pansies flowering right through to march. Dead head the spent flowers and both plant will continue to make new buds.

I normally have pansies, polyanthus, primulas, violas and cyclamen. I found winter trailing pansies this year that I haven’t seen before so I’m giving them a try in a few hanging baskets.

Does anyone know how heuchera holds up over winter? Does it keep its leaves or fade away and resprout in the spring?

Heuchera is good for the winter, check for vine weevils though and you might need to cut the odd tatty leaf off.

Heather, bronze Carex comans, orone of the smaller blue grasses

Thank you very much. A trip to the garden centre is now in the diary.

Don’t forget to plant spring bulbs under your winter bedding and then you can go through to March/April and have the next display sorted too. It’s too early to plant tulips but my recently done pots have hyacinths and narcissus lurking beneath the bedding ready for Spring.
in addition to mentions above I love a hellebore or two though feels wrong to see them flowering already. Whilst chrysanthemums are not my favourite cut flower they’re also a good option for some autumn colour and for a bit of height.

Winter pansies and polyanthus (posh name for primrose) work best for us. Ours even lasted through to early summer.

What we also do is put some daffodil and tulip bulbs in the tub as well, maybe about 6/7 inches below top of compost, and in late Feb/March/April you'll have some love spring flowers popping up too, very colourful!

Polyanthus is a “posh name” for hybrids of primrose and cowslip. They’re characterised by having multiple flowers on each stem, whereas primrose has only one flower per stem.

Definitely pansies, they just keep going and going. And another vote for heather - bees love it, and it's out when there's not much else around for them.

As well as the above suggestions, I like ornamental cabbages in a few of my pots.

Sutton have got an offer on wallflowers at the moment

Last winter’s pansies are still in flower. I have 2 sets of pots and left them alone during the summer.
I have Heuchera purple palace in the pots and it survives well, it’s in flower at present.I like Hellibores as well, I buy quite small ones and they can stay in the pot for two or three years before they go into the garden. Last year when tidying up the winter pots I found some self seeded cyclamen which I’ve grown on and are about to go into the garden.
I think I might just add some extra pansies this year as the pot isn’t looking bad.