From Pinks to Blues (Bedding Plants in General)

Member Name: January

Product:	Bedding Plants in General
Date:	26/04/04 (1980 review reads)
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Advantages: Adds colour to your garden

Disadvantages: None

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
variety and see the results of new colour schemes and fragrances.

Bedding plants are ideal for adding splashes of colour to the garden, they are good for
changing around or if you don?t have a garden you can plant them into small and large
pots for standing outside your door, or you can plant them in hanging baskets for the
added extra colour to your house.

Bedding plants can be bought in packets as seeds and set off in the greenhouse from
february onwards. You can also buy them in trays at supermarkets for around £1.99 or
at garden centres for more or less the same price, but the best place to get them from I
think is the bootsales.
Not only will you get the bedding plants cheap but they will have been grown by a person who is interested in gardening and has looked after them and watered them properly, often you go into the supermarket or garden centre to find bedding plants underwatered and shrivelled with dead leafage on them.
So buying from a bootsale can find you better stock.

I think bedding plants are easy to grow, just transfer them from the tray you buy them
in into the part of the garden or pot you want to keep them in. Water well and watch
them grow and bloom.
If like me your interested in getting lots of colour schemes

into your garden then look
for the plants which will either compliment each other when they flower or will
match by planting the same coloured plants of different shades.
Last year my colour scheme in my garden ranged from blue to purple and all my plants flowers were different shades of these colours, it was beautiful and the garden looked so relaxing in the spring and summer months. The year before that I used all the plants I could find which ranged from deep red to light pinks.
This year I am going for whites and pinks. So I am choosing which plants are the best
and arranging them in my flower beds.

There are so many bedding plants to choose from and most of them will yield a good
crop of flowers over the spring and summer months to add colour and mood to your
garden, some of the best bedding plants I find for the fragrance and blooms are.

Bellis,
Which is a hardy perrenial and will come back each year, it can be grown in
pots, beds and borders and is a sort of daisy looking plant, you can get this in colours
from white to crimson.

Campanula,
Which has a brilliant range of colours and there are lots of varieties, it can
also be grown in beddings, pots and baskets. You can usually find a variety of this in
purple hanging over people's garden walls around this time of year.

Impatiens,
Are good for the beds as the colours are deep and contrasting with the brightest colours you can find for your flowers beds. These can be bedded in any sheltered area, to produce lovery colour to your garden.

Verbena,
Is a common bedding plant sold almost anywhere and has a loverly fragrance and colour.

Petunia,
Can be added to the bedding area of your garden or they can be grown in
pots, hanging baskets and window boxes, the flowers can be bought in numerous
colours as there are lots of different varieties.

Lobelia,
This is another co
mmon
bedding plant which can also be bought in different
colours, they look good almost anywhere you plant it, from beds to hanging baskets
this will flower for a long time and add colour wherever you want it.

I could go on for quite a while naming different plants which can add colour to your
garden beds, but if you?ve just started to garden then the one?s I?ve mentioned above
should be enough to be going on with.
Have fun in your garden and once you have it as you want it, there?s nothing better
than to relax with a good book, in the middle of a colourful fragrant area of your
garden.

Have a loverly summer.

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