Give your garden a makeover (Bulbs)

Member Name: gailsmith

Product:	Bulbs
Date:	04/02/01 (119 review reads)
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Advantages: Your garden will look lovely!

Disadvantages: none, very little effort needed!

Home makeovers, body makeovers, lifestyle makeovers – they’re all the rage. So what about garden makeovers?
It could be you’re not particularly keen on gardening. Or perhaps you’re thinking of selling you’re property as spring approaches. Maybe you just want to keep up with the Joneses.
For whatever reason, you can make your garden look a hundred times better at this time of year without too much effort.
If you’ve got waist-high weeds, bring them down with a strimmer right now.
Don’t wait for the warmer weather to do jobs like that, or the path-clearing or re-treating fences. Tackle the places that matter most, those that are on show – particularly near the front door. If they’re horrible they will depress you and everyone who comes near the house.
A small bed on either side of the front door area dug over and planted, even at this time of the year, with winter-flowering pansies, double daisies and polyanthus will be bright, cheerful and pretty. And the chances are that your local garden centre will have reduced the price of those plants by now.
If no spring bulbs are putting in an appearance, at the and of next month you can buy pots of narcissus, crocus, hyacinths, or any other spring bulbs being sold in bud or even just in flower. All you have to do is plant them, so that the pot cannot be seen, in the eke-catching beds.
Only buy the pots of bulbs where they have been displayed outside the garden centre throughout the day, because they will be reasonably hardened off.
Pots, of course, are the solution to everything, even the messiest garden. Pots can be planted for every season and you can even have water feature pots with waterlilies or water hyacinths floating on the surface.
The great thing about container gardening is that you can move the containers around to create a kaleidoscope of colour and shape. And if you are on the move, you can take them with you.
Colour,
form and interest – it’s all available in the darkest of months with just a little effort.

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