The following list gives some examples of perennials that can provide the garden with winter interest, with either decorative leaves or attractive flowers:

Flowers

• Bergenia 'Ballawley' (Elephant's ears)
• Bergenia cordifolia (Elephant's ears)
• Doronicum (Leopard's bane)
• Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae (Wood spurge)
• Euphorbia characias (Spurge)
• Helleborus argutifolius (Corsican hellebore)
• Helleborus niger (Christmas rose)
• Iris unguicularis (Winter iris)
• Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
• Ranunculus ficaria (Lesser celandine)

Foliage

• Arum italicum subsp. italicum (Italian arum)
• Bergenia 'Ballawley' (Elephant's ears)
• Bergenia cordifolia (Elephant's ears)
• Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae (Wood spurge)
• Euphorbia characias (Spurge)
• Festuca glauca (Blue fescue)
• Helleborus argutifolius (Corsican hellebore)
• Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple' (Purple-leaved coral bells)
• Iris foetidissima 'Variegata' (Variegated stinking iris)
• Lamium maculatum 'Chequers' (Spotted dead-nettle)
• Liriope muscari 'Variegata' (Variegated lilyturf)
• Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' (Mondograss)
• Phormium (cvs) (Flax)
• Stachys byzantina 'Silver Carpet' (Lamb's lugs)
• Vinca (variegated cvs) (Variegated periwinkle)