| If you have little time, choose easy-care plants such as bergenia, skimmia and Viburnum davidii and avoid annuals and bedding plants that need regular watering and feeding. |
| December blooms include berries on holly, skimmia, pine cones on conifers and Christmas roses. |
| For those customers she recommends shrubs, especially broad-leaved evergreens like skimmia, aucuba, and variegated leucothoe. |
| December features holly berries, skimmia, cotoneaster, dogwood, pine cones and Christmas rose. |
| Compact evergreen skimmia come into their own in winter with a show of red buds. |
| Cut back overgrown specimens of spotted laurel, bay, box, fatsia, skimmia and evergreen cotoneaster. |
