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Bedding Plants in General
Description: Ornamental annuals are often called bedding plants. Annuals are often used in gardens to provide splashes of color, as ... more  Bedding Plants in General ... they tend to have a longer season of bloom than hardy herbaceous perennials. Some tender perennials commonly grown as annuals are impatiens, wax begonia, snapdragon, Pelargonium, coleus and petunia. Some biennials that can be grown as annuals are pansy and hollyhock.Newest Review: ... for these. PLANTING The plants are usually sold in strips which contain about 6 plants, you just break off the polystyrene ... more ... strips and gently remove the plants. Then plant them, spacing them according to the instructions on the label, and make sure you water them well, on a daily basis. Initially they plants will look rather sparse when spaced out, but as the weeks progress throughout the summer they will spread and your garden should be a riot of colour. Give them a liquid feed about once a week and water them every evening.
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There are lots of varieties of bedding plants. I love petunias and busy lizzies and begonias for th...more |
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Bedding Plants in General: From Pinks to Blues (891 words)
by January - written on 26.04.04 (Very useful, 1438 readings)
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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 ...
My Herbs Don't Go In The Pot. (1688 words)
by aefra - written on 12.12.03 (Very useful, 412 readings)
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Bedding Plants in General: Instant gardening and colour throughout the summer (980 words)
by lellagrace - written on 25.05.07 (Very useful, 638 readings)
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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 ...
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