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To keep your flower beds looking full, interplant winter aconite with late bloomers, like alliums and columbines.
Most famously, milkweed plants arethehost plants for monarch caterpillars, but they attract other wildlife too.
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Like snowdrops, hellebores are undaunted by cold weather and can even bloom through snow.
Lily of the Valley
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Looking for a cold tolerant groundcover?
North America has 9 types of native coneflowers, including the ever-popular purple coneflower and the yellow prairie coneflower.
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If you dont deadhead the spent flowers, black-eyed Susan will self-sow and attract seed-eating birds in autumn.
Witch Hazel
If you miss seeing flowers in winter, try growing some witch hazel.
When summer arrives, bloodroot dies away above ground, but theseperennial plantsreturn reliably each spring.
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While these plants arent as showy as bearded irises, theyre more drought and cold-tolerant.
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