Growing bedding plants
Easy to grow and care for, annual bedding plants can be grown in hanging baskets and pots or borders. Change your displays every year, and use our guide for getting the best results. Buy packs of ready-grown bedding plants from garden centres. ... [... more]
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How to grow summer bedding from plugs
Growing your own bedding plants, plugs are ideal. The grower can then germinate and grow on the young plants. If you want to save time and money growing your own bedding plants, plugs are ideal. Starting life in a nursery with a very controlled ... [... more]
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How to protect your garden from rabbits and deer
Deer and rabbits will eat almost every garden plant between them. From bedding plants and salad crops, to young shrubs and trees. In the past, in my various gardening roles, I have been lucky enough not to experience too many problems with ... [... more]
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Alyssum 'Snowdrift'
This classic summer bedding plant blooms for months on end. Briliant white flowers cover the low-growing, mound-shaped plants from June to September and brighten up the dullest of days. Perfect as edging, it makes an excellent partner for ... [... more]
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Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii'
Despite its sensitive, tender nature, this plant is increasingly popular as a bedding plant planted out for the summer. It's a must-have plant for those who yearn for a tropical garden: giant, jungle-like paddles of rich red and green leaves ... [... more]
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Alocasia 'Calidora'
The elephant's ear plant is terrific, lush, jungly bedding plant for growing outside over summer with other large-leaved plants like cannas and Trachycarpus fortunei. When mature it sends up a large, shield-like leaf. Stand in a sheltered spot so ... [... more]
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Petunia 'Prism Sunshine'
Voted British Bedding Plant of the Year 1998, 'Prism Sunshine' is also a Fleuroselect and American Award winner. It is claimed to be the best large-flowered yellow petunia and is certainly very eye-catching in summer bedding and patio displays. ... [... more]
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Plant a hanging basket
How to plant up a hanging basket to add some instant colour and interest to your collection of containers. Use a range of summer bedding plants to suit your chosen colour scheme, and change them throughout the year to reflect what's in ... [... more]
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Tagetes patula 'Packstar Bee'
There are scores of varieties of this popular bedding plant, all variations on yellow, orange and red shades. Tagetes are the main source of these colours in traditional bedding, making brilliant edging and patches of colour in borders, like ... [... more]
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May flower garden diary from Gardenaction
Sorry, only the monthly calenadar is available at the moment. Sorry, only the monthly calenadar is available at the moment. Summer will soon be here! Get out those bedding plants to paint your garden in summer. Sorry, only the monthly calenadar ... [... more]
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Agastache 'Firebird'
The appropriately named 'Firebird', which is a marvellous shade of copper-orange, is a first-rate bedding plant for a one-off summer display. The mass of buds start opening in July, and the plants certainly pull their weight because they keep ... [... more]
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