I'm looking for flowers that bloom in winter or in snow. I have snow crocus, and forsythia can bloom in early Spring snow, but I don't know of any other flowers that bloom in the cold.

Hellebores are the other thing that comes to mind that will bloom in winter, Keith. They're beautiful tough perennial plants that like to grow in the shade. The old original cultivar was known as the "Christmas Rose" because it would sometimes have flowers open for the holidays. There's another known as 'Lenten Rose' that would usually bloom in February, I'm guessing.

Here's one from a good long list in our Plant Database Hellebore (Helleborus Frostkiss™ Winter Moonbeam)

Galanthus aka Snow Drops; not sure which variety would be best for your area.

Kieth,
These are shrubs rather than perennials but Witch Hazel, Winter Jasmine, Viburnum Dawn. Also the very small Iris, I have a dark blue one.

dyzzypyxxy said:Hellebores are the other thing that comes to mind that will bloom in winter, Keith. They're beautiful tough perennial plants that like to grow in the shade. The old original cultivar was known as the "Christmas Rose" because it would sometimes have flowers open for the holidays. There's another known as 'Lenten Rose' that would usually bloom in February, I'm guessing.

Here's one from a good long list in our Plant Database Hellebore (Helleborus Frostkiss™ Winter Moonbeam)

Those are really nice and appear that they will grow well here. The leaves remind me of cyclamen.

I had no idea so many plants bloomed in the snow .... but I've lived in Florida for almost 48 years. Here are links to our database with more information on the above listed plants:

Helleborus: http://garden.org/plants/brows...
Galanthus: http://garden.org/plants/brows...
Iris reticulata: http://garden.org/plants/searc...

Hellebores are really great plants, and come in soft yellow, pink and mellow shades of red as well as white. There are some double ones as well. I'll caution you on two things about them though: they're pretty slow growers so it takes a while for them to clump up and look really great, and (because of the slow growth) they're pretty expensive to buy.

Well worth it, though. If I were ever to move back to a place that suffers winter I'd surely plant a whole garden of them.

Here's a clump I planted in my daughter's garden in Salt Lake City. This would be its third year, blooming up a storm.

Camellias bloom during winter here, most heavily a couple-few weeks ago. Do they get going as soon in Z7?

Have you tried planting pansies in the fall?