--- title: Cold climate favourites description: Discover cold climate favourites for your garden, including peonies, hellebores, daphne, and clematis. 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These beauties are cool climate lovers. For those in warm temperate zones that are elevated in mountainous zones, you may have success or if you know you can create a cool microclimate in your area then why not have a go?  Peony: Herbaceous perennial peonies are bought in winter as packaged bare-root plants and planted for a spring display. In spring you will find plants already growing available for sale in pots. - Height 50cm to 2.5m. The taller varieties are bought as established shrubs. - Plant in a sunny to semi-shaded location with protection from winds. - Peonies may require staking depending on the variety grown as their large blooms can be quite heavy. These make the most wonderful cut flowers. **Hellebores: ** These low-growing flowering herbaceous perennials have the most mind-blowing range of flower colours. From green to almost black, purple, apricot, crimson, pink, cream, white and more. - Height of 40-60cm. -  Provide an organic humus-rich soil, try [Rocky Point Organic Health Garden Soil](https://rockypoint.com.au/products/organic-health-garden-soil/)for a long-term soil solution. - Water well during times of drought and mulch thickly with [Rocky Point Sugar Cane Mulch](https://rockypoint.com.au/products/sugarcanemulch/) around the roots before the onslaught of summer heat. - Grow under trees and in a semi-shaded garden location for the best floral displays throughout winter and early spring. **Daphne:** Daphne is renowned for its heavenly-scented star-shaped cluster of flowers that come in white, cream, yellow or pale pink depending on the variety. The perfume is mind-blowing. - 1-1.5m tall and will happily grow in pots as well as in the garden. - Choose a semi-shaded position in that garden where they preferably receive early morning sun. - Require free draining but moist soil, like [Rocky Point Organic Health Garden Soil](https://rockypoint.com.au/products/organic-health-garden-soil/) or for a more budget-friendly soil try [Rocky Point Garden Soil](https://rockypoint.com.au/products/garden-soil/). - Mulch thickly and fertilise with a slow-release fertiliser like [Rocky Point ActivGrow Fertiliser Pellets](https://rockypoint.com.au/products/activgrow-pellets/) in spring. - Avoid root disturbance at planting and avoid transplanting as they have fragile roots. **Clematis: ** This flowering genus of climbing plants has a vast and truly diverse number of species, groups, and cultivars available to the home gardener. - Flowering will occur anywhere from winter, all the way through to autumn depending on the variety. - Being a climbing plant, it will need some form of structure to grow over and upon, grows up to 2-3m. - Flowers are flamboyantly coloured blooms and colour ranges from white to all shades of pink, mauve, and purple. 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