Winter hanging baskets?

My hanging baskets are about over - some had tumbling tomatoes and some had nemesia and geraniums.

Around now I usually empty them out and pack them away for next year but does anyone keep them going over winter? Are there any plants hardy enough to be attractive in basket when it's really cold? I guess same as winter bedding really?

 

Winter Pansies.
They stand the weather up here and last all winter. In Spring they self seed and I pick up growing plants from pots and borders and fill gaps in the Summer.
Presumably you can collect seeds and sow for next Winter. I'm sure there will be people here that can confirm for you.

 

I am going to do my first ever winter one, I have just bought some cyclamen from the garden centre, and have some red winter pansies to go with them. I am also going to put some little daffs in there, I have already popped them in a pot as I thought they ought to be in the soil by now.

I have been reading up a couple of recommends - Cineraria and pretty leaved evergreen shrubs such as euonymous and ivy, those little bushes with big red berries on - I know there were some on the market but can't remember the name!

what about a clump of snowdrops ready to poke through in Feb?

 

Nope, I don't. Clean them out, put them in the shed. And look forward to finding a different collection of colors in the spring for them.

 

Thanks everyone! I admit we don't actually venture out much to the back garden in winter but it would be nice to have a few splashes of colour in baskets or beds so I am going to try some winter pansies, which to be honest I had never heard off before! I was bought up in a family that grew veg and shrubs and trees but not many flowers. I feel like flowers are an area I need to work on! My plug plants are ordered and such pretty colours!

 

You can drop on with some of those plug plants at the moment, think there were packs of 12 primroses, cowslips etc for £1.99 each. Just gonna pop those in and see what happens, also you can by a wider selection of pansies and viola's in the plugs :D I found...

 

My pansie plugs just arrived. And I am excited to get them in! And not very expensive at all. Lovely colours... There's one that's sort of pumpkin orange! I am slowly learning about these flower things. :D Think I will do 2 hanging baskets and some bedding.

In the meantime my passion flower is in full swing and stunning! Earlier in the year it showed no sign of growing or flowering.

 

I always scatter some tubs of winter violas around my patio where I can easily see them. They are so pretty and will bloom their little guts out until spring when it warms up again. I have white, yellow, and various purple ones. It's nice to see some cheerful color in the winter.