Winter blooming houseplants for your space

Winter can be a hard time for gardeners; the last blooms of the year begin to die back, bulbs are moving indoors to overwinter, and many trees lose their lush foliage. Even if you live in an area where winters are warmer, the shorter days and fewer hours of sunlight likely leave you with less time to tend to your garden.

But you can still enjoy the colours of a spring and summer garden by adding a few winter-blooming houseplants to your collection. These colourful plants give you something to admire while you wait for warmer weather to return.

Bromeliads

An exotic plant that adds beauty to your home during winter, bromeliads have strappy leaves that are topped by colourful clusters of flowers in shades of red, orange, yellow, pink, purple, or white.

An individual bromeliad plant will only bloom once, but it will produce offshoots that will grow and bloom as they mature.

African Violets

The flowers on African violets can last for several weeks, any time of the year, including during winter and can bloom continuously with proper care. The plant has fuzzy leaves with ruffled edges that give way to a rosette of purple flowers.

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Anthurium

Anthuriums are cheery, exotic flowering houseplants with glossy, green, heart-shaped leaves topped by heart-shaped pink, red, or white, long-lasting blooms. Healthy grown anthuriums bloom almost all year long if they get enough light, fertiliser, and moisture; and if conditions are warm and humid enough, the blooms can last for months. This is why it’s important to place them indoors where it is warmer during the cold months.

Holiday Cactus

Unlike a lot of desert cacti, holiday cacti are epiphytes, meaning that instead of growing on the ground, they grow on tree limbs. They have green, flattened stems, often with toothed margins and lovely flowers in shades of yellow, peach, orange, red, pink, purple, or white. The flowers typically appear during the coldest months of the year and last for four to six weeks. So, bringing them indoors during autumn and winter is the best idea.