Bedding Plants in General

I'm by no means an expert gardener but I do enjoy pottering about once the lawn is cut , the edges trimmed, the pruning & weeding done etc... then is the best time - the planting! I've bought bedding plants for years now & have been delighted with some flowers whilst disappointed with others. I've also wasted a lot of money so hopefully, for non-gardeners like myself, this review may be useful? Bedding plants are usually bought in strips, pots or trays with flowers which have been grown from seed. They are usually annuals (flowering once a year) but some last longer if protected in the greenhouse/ garage over the winter months. It's possible ...  Read the complete review

BANK HOLIDAY The sun is shining and it is a Bank Holiday weekend, no doubt the garden centres and nurseries will be busy with people stocking up on bedding plants. WHAT ARE BEDDING PLANTS? So what are "bedding" plants? They are grown from seed and are usually annuals, which means they are sown and flower the same season, then die off. GROW FROM SEED? You can grow them yourself but the seeds need to be sown early in the year so it is a bit late to do this for this season. However, the garden centres, markets, nurseries and a few roadside stalls will all have bedding plants for sale at the moment. Lots of ...  Read the complete review

As you may have guessed by some of my reviews that I love to garden, I have an average sized garden with two apple trees, a cherry tree, roses, a pagola which has climbing plants over it and is great for sitting in drinking cool iced drinks in summer and I also have two large flowers beds and one vegetable patch as well as growing rhubarb, gooseberries, raspberries and strawberries. Like all gardeners I like to change things around a lot and I?m always experimenting with new idea?s and new colour schemes for my garden, the one place I can really get into this is in the flowers beds, where every year I can change the bedding plant ...  Read the complete review

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SAVING AND PLANTING SEED'S Some of my garden has begun to look faded and tatty the flowers on the sweet Williams are dead, so are the dog daisies and the calendula (pot marigolds are beginning to go to seed. The honesty has lost its flowers and has some pretty paper like windows, the love in the mists petals have fallen, and the aquilegia has pepper pots not flowers. They may look a little tatty but I have not pulled them up I am letting them complete their life cycle. Seed, plant flower, seed rest awhile then plant flower seed all over again and again. Today decided some of the seeds were ripe so I cleared the sweet Williams put their ...  Read the complete review