Bedding Plants in General Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I bought my own home last year,and the garden was in a very sorry state,so wellies and spade at the ready I decided that I would by the next spring have my garden tidy and ready for planting. I have a greenhouse which I was so excited about using ,so down to Wyevale in the spring i went and bought all the seeds I could find. ...  Read the complete review

We moved to a new property late lastyear and although we have a medium to small garden with small beds, I looked forward this year to planting up the beds and some containers and baskets. I'd never really done any gardening before so I bought loads of packets of seeds, seed trays and lots of compost and got started come February. ...  Read the complete review

Summer last year myself and my partner decided that we would make a flower box for our garden window shelf so we bought lot's of plants including pansys. Well the pansys looked like they were going to die so as a last resort i planted them in the garden. Well in one year they have not only survived but they look like small bushes ...  Read the complete review

Why? Well you can display such a riot of colour with them for a start especially if you pick the varieties with those lovely little 'joker' faces in the centers.There are also many varieties to choose from. This year I'm growing three different kinds. 'Beacon Mix'which are multi-coloured,in shades of ...  Read the complete review

Pinks are pretty and yet free flowering plants and have the most wonderful smell. These delightful flowers are members of the dianthus family,which includes carnations, and sweet williams.The old fashioned pinks are the ones that have longbeen grown in cottage gardens.They are very hardy and ideal for herbaceous borders,depending on ...  Read the complete review

The warm days have arrived and I'm itching to get out in the garden. Having last year bought a few Dahlia tubers and being amazed at the results I have raised a dwarf variety form seed which are almost ready to go out. Dahlias range from 12" to 3 foot tall, however I love the dwarf varieties for their lively and ...  Read the complete review

Lady’s Mantle or to give the botanical name, Alchemilla Mollis is a beautiful plant to have in the garden, it is a hardy perennial. I personally think that it is underrated by a lot of people, maybe because it is a plant that is mainly green, even when in flower. It gets overlooked in favour of the showy summer annuals like ...  Read the complete review

I recently did a course where the tutor was crazy about hardy geraniums which I thought was rather strange until she gave me some cuttings and I was hooked. There are loads to choose from and they flower for months. Indeed the little cutting I was given grew into a huge plant and flowered from May until September with the flowers covering ...  Read the complete review

Rhododendron, Azalea, Pieris, Camelea. When the Spring flowers, Daffodil, Crocus, Snowdrop etc. that herald the arrival of warmer weather start to die off, it is the purples,pinks and reds of the spectacular woodland plants that carry us through to the emergence of the summer bedding plants. They are the plants that I love best, but they are also ...  Read the complete review