A novice gardener may think it is an impossible task to create colour and interest all year round in a garden, but with careful planning whatever size your garden, is a project that is achievable.
A novice gardener may think it is an impossible task to create colour and interest all year round in a garden, but with careful planning whatever size your garden, is a project that is achievable.
Garden bulbs are the first plants to herald the end of winter and the start of the spring, and there is not a single person that fails to be cheered by the sight of snowdrops in January, or the very first daffodils in February, and if chosen carefully, garden bulbs can keep the garden supplied with changing colour from January to December.
The most difficult times to produce colour are at the end of August and the period between late December to late January, in spring it’s easy to create colour using garden bulbs, and spring flowers such as forsythia and decentra.
Spring also brings anemones which spread once they are established, also crocuses, will be quite happy in lawns, or borders, or grow violets which look beautiful in rock gardens, and will of course spread by seed, also daffodils and tulips are wonderful colour for spring.
Summer is the season when the Lily’s are at their best, and are available in a huge range of colours, primarily whites, creamy yellows, oranges and reds, and have strong scents, also a number of African bulbs are able to tolerate the damper climate of the UK, not forgetting the ever popular Gladioli, which of course needs staking and feeding annually. Dahlias bring a lot of work for the gardener, but are still popular; they will also need staking and then lifting the tubers in the autumn.
Summer is also the time to purchase bedding plants which can be used to plants up containers, and make a wonderful display used as hanging basket plants; of course many gardeners use garden seeds and start from scratch nurturing seedlings to plant on in the summer months.
Late summer have a wonderful show of Rudbeckia a perennial plant which has the most beautiful orange yellow flowers in late August to September, they grow quickly and will need to be supported in a border for maximum effect.
Autumn is the time when a garden slows down for winter, but you can still have a wonderful show with Cyclamens or the autumn crocus, find a good outlet and you will get all the information for time of planting and blooming.
Winter of course is the season of the snowdrop also the hardy cyclamen or the native winter aconite, the tubers will spread, and then in February the first of the daffodils are in flower, winter will of course produce some vegetable plants ready for harvest, and of course shrubs such as lavender plants seem to go on for ever.
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A beautifully kept garden can be a sight to behold, and it certainly will give colour and interest all year round.
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