A well planted and kept garden is a reflection of the person that has put so much work into nurturing the plants, shrubs and trees to make a visual picture of beauty, so how does your garden grow? Is it full of just flowers, do you have a mixture of flowers and vegetables, or is it all shrubs, or just a wild garden?
A well planted and kept garden is a reflection of the person that has put so much work into nurturing the plants, shrubs and trees to make a visual picture of beauty, so how does your garden grow? Is it full of just flowers, do you have a mixture of flowers and vegetables, or is it all shrubs, or just a wild garden?
This time of year gardeners will be thinking and planning what to plant for next spring and the first thing that a gardener will think of is garden bulbs, daffodil, tulip, crocus, lily and dahlia all fall into the category of bulbs or ‘bulbous plants’ which includes corms and tubers. They are all swollen parts of roots which, when planted, grow into a new plant.
There are two main planting times for garden bulbs; Spring-flowering bulbs need to be planted in autumn, having said that, tulips are best planted in November. Lilies and some anemones can be planted in either spring or early summer, but Summer-flowering bulbs, like dahlia, begonia, and gladioli are usually planted in spring and early summer.
Bulbs of course look great in containers and dwarf varieties can be grown and look beautiful as hanging basket plants, also planting them in pots that can be sunk in the ground or when in bloom is a superb way of filling gaps in beds and borders also patio containers.
Hanging baskets are great for small spaces and a great way to add colour to drab walls and fences, and hanging them around front doors certainly brightens up the visual view of the front of your house. Hanging baskets can also be used for growing trailing varieties of exotic plants all-be-it flowers, vegetable plants or just interesting foliage.
Some ideas for hanging basket plants encompass vegetable plants such as tomatoes and strawberries, or herbs such as chive, thyme, marjoram, and flowers such as begonia, lobelia, geranium, fuchsia, petunia, and of course the foliage that will look lovely swinging in a hanging basket is coleus, cineraria, lamium sage and many more.
Many, many people appreciate lavender plants in a garden for its fragrance and today it flourishes throughout Southern Europe, Australia and the USA, although it is native to the mountainous areas of the Mediterranean and grows profusely in sunny stony habitats.
Lavender plants are very low maintenance and only require watering once or twice a week, this is probably why so many gardeners have these plants in the garden. The plant prefers full sun and does not tolerate shade and can be grown from seed, cuttings or from a purchased plant and the best time to plant it in the garden is in the late spring or early summer.
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