August has come to an end but the flowers are far from coming to the end.
We have lots of colour available to top up your pots and window boxes. Once you feed and dead head the summer flowers they will continue to bloom until temperatures drop so they can bring you right into October. Perennial are great once their flower is gone you may find another flush of growth ready to pop up. It’s a great time to collect seeds from the perennial and have them for next year.
Winter cabbage has starting to arrive and Skimmia Japonica with the red berry make a lovely addition to the pots, the Dianthus 6 pack also known as Sweet William gives lovely colour over the autumn period. The ivy and the siler selection of plants can give love texture and colour to all planters. I highly recommend adding a fresh planter to the collection will help cheer anybody up this time of year.
The Bulbs will be arriving over the next few weeks so if you have wanted to add to the spring bulb collection, we will have an array from snowdrops to tulips and lots more mix of daffodils coming in soon. The past week we have had a lot of customers who are adding plots to parts of the garden and want low maintenance plants or as little as work as possible. Hebes has a range in size and colour and are evergreen that would be suitable.
Lavender is another low maintenance choice. It is scented and has flowers, it does require some maintaining. The euonymus is another group of plant that are low maintenance and can be kept shaped and low in size.
Grow cover plant like campanula are long flowering and evergreen with a few colours to choose from. White and purple is most popular along with lilac.
The Aduja repens is very nice grow cover that comes in variety of colour; a burgundy colour leaf and has blue or pink flower and also comes in a variegated leaf too.
These are just a few ideas and you can always add some perennials to add pops of colour throughout the beds.
Autumn may be coming into full swing this September so why not gift yourself a lovely Autumnal pot this week.
