Incredible flower everyone should have through the winter

TV and gardening legend Alan Titchmarsh has had his say on the flower you should have in your garden this winter that will spruce up your space. It doesn't matter whether you have a small outside space like a balcony or a large sprawling garden, you can easily add this plant to your green space.

Alan, speaking to the Mirror, explained that anyone looking to take advantage of winter flowers should opt for the Winter Jasmine. He said "Its botanical name, Jasminum nudiflorum, refers to the fact that it flowers on naked stems, and the yellow flowers are carried at any time from November until February."

When temperatures drop, Jasminum nudiflorum produces delicate yellow flowers that can add much needed cheer to the months that offer cold, dark and dreary days. Winter Jasmine is also a plant that is tough and hardy, perfect for the English weather and can thrive through the coldest of winters, the Mirror reports.

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Alan explains "Only severe weather – when the stems are rimed with frost – will cause its blooms to be stopped in their tracks, but once the cold snap has passed the plant recovers and the flowering continues."

Depending on where you plant your Winter Jasmine, you shouldn't need to train it, but you may want to if it is going to be placed by a wall or fence, "A wall or fence of any aspect will suit this scrambler and horizontal wires or trellis will allow its stems to be tied in," Alan explains. It also can be grown in pots, where you will be treated to a gorgeous trailing effect, per Gardener's World.

You should plant Winter Jasmine in the autumn or winter itself, and Alan explains that in terms of ongoing maintenance, it's pretty simple to keep this plant healthy and thriving. "Only when it stops flowering will you need to worry about pruning. Cut out a few of the oldest flowered stems each year in March and tie in new, healthy green ones," the expert says.

Winter Jasmine's flowers are unscented, but the optimism and splash of colour they will bring to your garden during the coldest most dreary months is well worth it, and it grows really easily, Alan explains, "A shoot of jasmine has only to touch the soil to form roots and start up life."