Can anyone suggest any winter plants that are annuals...and when should i be planting them. Thank you very much.

Winter bedding is not being sold yet as it tends to favour the cooler conditions, Late september onwards is when we have it ready at the nursery.
Pansies are good, bellis too, but both will seed around esp bellis as they are perennial. Wall flowers can continue after theyve flowered for another years flowering but always look a bit tatty. Forget me nots- Myostis they seed around but will finish and die after flowering in spring.

All I can think of in the way of annuals is pansies and alyssum. Then there are the winter flowering polyanthus and primulas but they are not annuals.

Alyssum a winter bedder! never knew that!

It is what I got on a google search - surprised me too!

You can buy it as bedding in the autumn (alyssum I mean) but it doesn't flower till spring, so its not doing anything during the winter.
There's the small cyclamen, the outdoor ones - they should be in the shops from September onwards, plus ornamental cabbages. Winter pansies, obviously. Not much else though - even the pansies don't do much in Jan/Feb if its cold. Bulbs for early spring like snowdrops, aconites? Crocus?

Oh Bamboo, there are lots of bulbs but McKonomie asked about annuals so I did not mention. Ditto cyclamen.

I don't mean the autumn flowering cyclamen, I mean the annual, chuck out when they stop, miniature versions of the houseplant ones. And no reason why I couldn't throw bulbs in - maybe Mcknome not thought about them.

Hey wasn't judging you... just saying I didn't consider bulbs because!

Yes, allysums are real good.