Our gardening expert suggests ways to lift your soul on unlit December morningsYou are a fickle lot: in summer,you had pots full of annuals and window boxes dripping with colour, but when the first frost came along you and your bedding gave up the ghost. A pot half-full of compost will not lift your soul on a unlit December morning, or but something in flower may.
The choice for winter bedding plants is limited; the obvious choices are violas and pansies. In the darkest days of December and January,they don’t flower much, coming back into play as the days lengthen, and so the best displays will have something else in the pot,such as erica species heathers that flower from December to April. The white and cream is the least offensive and can be incorporated among ivies and cyclamen to create a restrained look.
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Source: guardian.co.uk