Planting for your front door to add winter interest

Ideas for planting around your front door or the main access to your house for interest during the winter months.

Your front door is for most people the main area of a garden you see in winter months so it’s an opportunity to grow some plants that have some winter colour and winter scents.
The advantage of winter flowering plants is they produce lots of winter colour and scent, produce strong colours and lots of heavenly scents to try and attract what insects are about during the winter to pollinate the flowers.
These of the GardenAdvice recommendations for winter colour and winter scented plants

Iris retuclata– small bulb planted in the autumn flowers in February about 100mm high blue flowers great when planted near a property wall for some protection.

Daphne odora ‘Aureomarginata’ – an evergreen shrub great small with the ability to produce a scent that can be detected 10 metres from the plant.

Helleborus x hybridus ‘Garden Red’ – bright red winter colour looks great on frosty days