Gardeners the world over will have their firm favourites when it comes to planting up their gardens, and they will sometimes keep the same garden plants year after year or they will chop and change about. It is easy to do this if you are just dealing with bedding plants, but when it comes to garden shrubs best to consider where to plant these main stays in the garden.
Gardeners the world over will have their firm favourites when it comes to planting up their gardens, and they will sometimes keep the same garden plants year after year or they will chop and change about. It is easy to do this if you are just dealing with bedding plants, but when it comes to garden shrubs best to consider where to plant these main stays in the garden.
Lavenderhas definitely made a comeback, it is an attractive plant that bursts into a profusion of beautiful purple-coloured blooms, the flowers give off a strong, pleasing aroma when crushed, and when dried, lavender retains both its colour and scent, which has made it a favourite in centuries past and in modern times.
Lavender plants make a nice addition to the home garden, low growing varieties form attractive borders, larger plants are used for wonderful, aromatic hedging, also Lavender attracts butterflies too making it an all-round favourite with gardeners.
There are lavender festivals that introduce people to lavender’s uses in the home also health-wise, furthermore trendy restaurants use lavender flowers to enhance the look and taste of popular dishes.
Another firm favourite is the begoniaplant it offers more variety than just about any other genus of house plant, the begonia family includes everything from rhizomatous plants grown for their colourful foliage to tuberous plants grown for their beautiful flowers and from compact miniatures to tall shrub like angel-wings with silver-marbled leaves.
The tuberous-rooted begonias are attractive plants to grow with double-flowers and textured foliage of course you can also get some single flowered varieties, these versatile plants make very colourful summer bedding and are superb as pot plants on the patio.
Begonias are available in many colours and sizes, all begonias have asymmetrical leaves that often are earlike in shape. Some varieties go dormant or semi-dormant during certain periods of the year and should be kept cool and dry at that time.
A lot of gardeners will start their begonias in an airing cupboard they certainly like a temperature of 18C and do not mind if it is even higher, when the small leaves are showing pot them ready to give as gifts.
A UK garden it would seem is not complete without a geranium, and old hands in the garden will know that this plant needs sunny locations with good soil drainage, don’t be fooled to over water, if the soil is too wet it will cause root rot, feed regularly during the growing season, and be sure to pinch off dead flowers to promote new growth and prevent fungus which will attack new buds and leaves.
A spokesman for Blooming Direct located on the beautiful island of Jersey said “we offer help and advice on how to look after all our plants and we would advise anyone wanting to grow lavender, geraniums, or begonias to log onto our website and seek help and advice on how best to grow these old favourites. We deliver FREE to the UK, and we guarantee all plants will arrive on the customer’s doorstep in pristine condition, our website is full of everything anyone will need for their garden, and we also stock garden tools, garden furniture, and much more”.
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