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What Flowers Are Good To Plant Now?
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Hi, I need a hobby, so figured my garden is a good place to start :-)
However, I am pretty clueless when it comes to plants and flowers.
It's all very green out there right now, and pretty bland.
I would like to inject some colour, but as the ground isn't great (and space is limited) I was thinking of using planters.
Any ideas of things I could plant now?
Garden is south facing and doesn't have a huge amount of shade, if that makes any difference.
Would like some nice, bright flowers which I could buy in trays ready to plant now.
Thanks.
However, I am pretty clueless when it comes to plants and flowers.
It's all very green out there right now, and pretty bland.
I would like to inject some colour, but as the ground isn't great (and space is limited) I was thinking of using planters.
Any ideas of things I could plant now?
Garden is south facing and doesn't have a huge amount of shade, if that makes any difference.
Would like some nice, bright flowers which I could buy in trays ready to plant now.
Thanks.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.ooo take your pick! If you are going for containers, go for big ones and when you fill them with soil, use a good quality mix and add water crystals as this will lessen the amount of times you need to water and will also retain what you do put in so less is wasted. You can get products that are both water crystals and plant food which helps a lot. Most of the tray plants sold now will love your sunny garden. Its worth going to the poshest nursery near you that you can find and looking at their ready made up tubs and displays to get ideas for colour schemes and plant mixes. You don't have to buy there, although the poshest nursery near us also has some of the best prices! If you want a hobby how about trying your hand at growing food? tomatoes are easy, decorative and will be happy in sun. You could mix them in with things like pot marigolds and herbs for wonderful scent and to keep the bees happy.
Antirrhinums (snap dragons) are good for bedding colour and don't need much looking after, just snap the spikes off when the flowers fade and they should sent up another flower spike. Petunias are good unless the summer is wet, geraniums give good show, Cosmos are taller and flower for ages if you deadhead, bedding begonias spread and give a carpet of red, pink and white. Yellow tagetes give a lovely splash of yellow which brightens up the garden and lasts well into Autumn.