Plants to bring colour and interest to your garden as winter looms

Despite fast approaching December, there is still a bit of colour around in the garden. A fabulous plant at this time of the year is the pretty coronilla glauca. It can be relied upon to dazzle both in the late summer and again through until late winter. The image is of a cutting I planted in the back garden this year but the shrub in the beach garden at the front of the house is covered in blooms. It is a small bushy evergreen shrub with blue-grey, pinnate leaves and heads of fragrant rich yell