Full Sun Perennials That Bloom All Summer What I love about this time of year is the anticipation of seeing all the glorious summer perennial plants affording us sumptuous garden displays. Winter seems such a long time ago and the lovely summer months are ahead of us. Most of the spring flowers have gone …
All Summer Blooming Flowers Don’t you just love spring and summer? I do. Each day we gain more daylight time, gardens are lush and colourful, blossom is blooming in the hedgerows, fruit trees are popping, buzzing with pollinators, it’s a wonderful time of year. Now is the time to sow the seeds for all summer …
8 Of The Best Late Summer Flowering Shrubs We need something to take us from mid July through to early Autumn, that is where my 8 Of The Best Late Summer Flowering Shrubs come into their own. These colourful shrubs are low maintenance and easy to grow. They just get on with flowering without any …
Flowering Plants For Full Sun If you have a sunny south or south-west facing garden or any sunny spot that you’re looking to fill with summer colour and interesting shapes and forms, then you need some flowering plants for full sun. Your gardens should be looking full and colourful at this time of year. …
Biennial Plants To Sow Now For A Summer Of Colour First of all what are Biennial plants? For those of you who are wondering, they are plants which have a two-year life cycle. We can grow them easily from seed. There are many Biennial Plants to sow now for a summer of colour. During their …
Summer Flowering Bulbs A Colourful Addition To Summer Gardens Most of us will recognise all the Spring bulbs, daffodils, tête-à-tête, snowdrops, crocus, aconites, hyacinth… and so on. But what do we have when they are finished and borders or pots are full of spent flowers and leaves? There are so many beautiful plants we …
Flower Garden Colour Combinations It’s the time of year when we are starting to plant out indoor sown annuals, direct sow some more and happily watching perennial plants popping up. Back in the autumn and winter we put our minds to what we wanted to grow this year, which flower garden colour combinations did …
Perennial Plants. First Year Flowering What Are Perennial Plants? Perennials are plants that live for 2 years or more. They flower each year usually in spring and summer following a period of dieback and dormancy. Some plants that are perennial in their native habitat are grown by gardeners as annuals due to the differences in …
