Category Archives for Bedding Plants
Annuals, Biennials and Perennials for Your Garden Beds and Borders
Perennials Perennials are plants which die to ground level every winter, and shoot again in the spring. Each year they grow wider and produce a greater and greater quantity of bloom. Their main uses are in herbaceous and mixed borders. … Continue reading
Regal and Zonal Pelargoniums
A Blooming Long Life For generations, these bedding geraniums, which are really ‘zonal’ pelargoniums, have been among the brightest of summer flowers and the most continuous in display (rivalled only by the scarlet salvias), but they are not the only … Continue reading
Successional Planting for Constant Garden Colour
BLOOM AND BLOOM AGAIN If you only have a small space to cultivate, you can make the ground work extra hard. It can be made to produce more than one crop of flowers each year either by successional planting, which … Continue reading
Colours of Summer: Growing Annuals and Biennials
Colours of Summer: Growing Annuals and Biennials Annuals are plants that complete their life cycle within one year and then die, leaving seed behind to germinate the following spring and continue the cycle. That is the strict definition but gardeners … Continue reading
Flowering Borders
Whereas the majority of the flowering shrubs appear at their best in late spring, our flower borders reach a later climax in July and we can, with a bit of organization, extend this season at both ends. June flowers must … Continue reading
Spring Bedding Plants for Your Flowering Borders
Spring-Flowering Bedding Plants The following list of spring bedding plants will brighten up your flower borders from the off. Be prepared – either propagating them yourself in your greenhouse or from the nursery. Brompton Stocks These do not always … Continue reading
Summer-Flowering Bedding Plants
Summer-Flowering Bedding Plants Ageratum This is used as an edging plant but is not so popular as either alyssum or lobelia. The chief varieties are Dwarf Blue, which is 9 ins. high and should be spaced at 8 ins., and … Continue reading