Photo showing the seasonal bright red flowers on a skimmia plant (Latin name: Skimmia japonica 'Rubella'), growing in the garden and pictured at the start of winter. This evergreen shrub flowers all through the frosty winter months, and then produces lots of small red berries. Of note, skimmias are acid loving plants and therefore require an ericaceous soil, meaning that many gardeners can only grow them in pots.
