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special care since.Like all hardy perennials they'll come back year after year, but some need lifting and dividing to keep their displays fresh and vibrant. Not so with astrantia, which produces delightful starburst blooms in June, that last all season

be divided into more plants. When dividing bromeliads, it's best to wait until the babies are at least 10-15cm long.Lift the main plant out of its pot to remove the individual baby plants, being careful not to damage any roots attached to the new plants. Pot

Juliana', which I think is the best of all orange flowers. It looks amazing, and,  in most combinations, gives a bit of a lift to paler colours. Here it is with Salvia 'Ostfriesland', Ligusticum lucidum and an osteospermum whose name I have, sadly

clumps of this and that from my mum, who is very understanding of having her established perennials lifted out of the ground and brutally divided with a spade. My bird boxes and feeders have been up for a while, but there’s been no sign of any birds

herbaceous perennials, and seed-sown annuals. Perennial displays can be created from lifting and dividing established plants from borders (no such luck for me, at the moment), while bedding staples, such as French and pot marigolds, salvia, bidens, lobelia