Aquatic Garden: The pond is frozen and tender aquatic plants are still indoors for winter storage.

Bulb Garden: Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis), will make an appearance within the next couple of weeks. Several thousand vividly colored tulip bulbs have been planted for this spring's display, ranging from single early to peony-flowered. While these won't bloom until May, look for minor bulbs such as squills and crocus to appear after the soil warms up.

Circle Garden: Donald Wyman crabapple (Malus 'Donald Wyman') - red berries. Tulip bulbs have been planted for this spring's display.

Dwarf Conifer Garden: Intermediate witch-hazel (Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena'). Horticulturist heather Sherwood says: "The Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena' (183-1997) in Dwarf Conifer Garden started to bloom last Monday! H. 'Jelena' may be my favorite Hamamelis of all time. The flowers are big and bright, and the fall color is outstanding! It was so cool to see it blooming with all the snow on the flowers last week!" This garden offers many subtle and surprising discoveries. Look for conifers in many varieties and shapes in shades of green, yellow, blue and purple.

Enabling Garden: Watch for colorful displays of annuals and bulbs in April. West Flower Walk: Winter interest: Three-flowered maple (Acer trifolium) with peeling bark that makes it closely resemble a birch; Northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) with the long, cigar-shaped pods that look like strange Christmas ornaments; Whitespire birch (Betula populifolia 'Whitespire') - delicately branched with peeling bark.

English Oak Meadow: Annuals have been removed for the winter.

English Walled Garden: Winter interest: Branches of weeping katsuratree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum 'Pendula') and weeping beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'), seedheads of late panicle hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata 'Tardiva') and golden rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata), fruit on David crabapple (Malus 'David'), snaking vines of wisteria on the pergola, evergreen foliage of Christmas rose (Helleborus niger).

The Esplanade: Bulbs have been planted for this spring's tulip display in May.

Heritage Garden: For the winter display, the pools have been filled with junipers and a Fraser fir stands in the middle of the Physic bed. Colorful fruit: Sargent crabapple (Malus sargentii). Watch for crocus and squill in the iris and lily beds.

Lagoon Garden: Yellow fruit on Harvest Gold® crabapple (Malus 'Hargozam').

Lakeside Gardens: Hesse cotoneaster (Cotoneaster 'Hessei') –cascading branches, redbud crabapple (Malus x zumi 'Calocarpa'-cranberry-colored berries).

Landscape Gardens: Vernal witch hazel (Hamamelis vernalis).

McGinley Pavilion: Winter interest: Whitespire birch (Betula populifolia 'Whitespire') – white bark, redosier dogwood (Cornus sericea 'Ruby') –red twigs, Unique panicle hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata 'Unique') –dried seedheads.

Native Plant Garden: Woods: Note the interesting bark on yellow birch (Betula allegheniensis), American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), shagbark hickory (Carya ovata). Stream/Bird Area: See the goose sculpture with a background of dried bur sedge (Carex grayi), swamp sedge (Carex muskingumensis), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium). Prairie: Birds can enjoy the seeds and shelter in the dried grasses.

Rose Garden: Roses are dormant for the winter, but many have colorful red and orange rose hips. The thorns on the arching canes of old garden and shrub roses are now visible. Other landscape plants of note: Mottled bark on Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia), tan bark on Amur chokecherry (Prunus maackii), green twigs of Japanese kerria (Kerria japonica).

Sensory Garden: Sunburst witch hazel (Hamamelis x intermedia 'Sunburst') is in bloom. Also look for Purple Ribbons witch hazel (Hamamelis vernalis 'Purple Ribbons').

Waterfall Garden: Winter Interest: From the top of the waterfall, see views of surrounding lakes and gardens (especially the Japanese Garden) which are obscured by foliage in summer. With the water turned off and foliage gone the rocks that form the falls stand out and become newly interesting as do the evergreens at every level. Red berries and curved stems on Poiret barberry (Berberis poirettii), red berries on Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii 'Kobold'), red stems on Tatarian dogwood (Cornus alba 'Siberian Pearls'), golden brown stems on snowfall ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius 'Snowfall'), drooping branches with yellow green needles and pine cones on weeping white pine (Pinus strobus 'Pendula'), stems cascading over rocks on dwarf basket willow (Salix integra 'Pendula').

Water Gardens: Note how areas of the shorelines with plants prevent erosion and provide habitat for wildlife. Tender aquatic plants are in winter storage.