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Before planting, put the trough in its final position and stand your plants alongside it. This will help you work out which neighbours work best together and give you an idea of planting distances.Place a layer of broken pots along the bottom of the trough

pansies and violas would have had much competition.For summer bedding then probably petunias would have got my vote. In addition my displays always contain pelargoniums for pots in the sun and New Guinea impatiens for shady sites.Verbena took fourth place

and carex for an autumn pot displayEnjoy the long flowering season of Verbena bonariensisTrain a late-flowering clematis up a wallEncourage wildlife to visit your garden by growing flowers for year-round colour

There are many hardy and half-hardy annuals that can be grown for cut flowers. Many attract bees and butterflies and some species can be dried, for use in long-lasting displays.Sow hardy and half-hardy annuals between March and April in small pots

terracotta pot that was normally planted with bedding. Filled with loam-based John Innes compost my Nerium oleander took up residence in June, and was soon in flower. Now, I wouldn't describe its display as spectacular, but my shrub produced luxuriant stems

Regular watering is essential for summer bedding, vegetables, pots and hanging baskets as well as newly-planted trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. Our tips show how to water your plants properly so that they can make best use of it and so that we

.Chrysanthemums are cheap, cheerful, and wonderful plants. Just when you've given up on the garden, with summer bedding displays coming to an abrupt end, along come chrysanths to provide the colourful punctuation every garden needs.I mostly use them in pots, pulling out

hyacinth produces a mini forest of stems, each carrying a small head of flower. It comes in blue, pink and white, and I'm hoping that a single bulb per pot will produce a really good display.

necrosis virus affects mainly early flowering cultivars and produces brown-streaked stems and leaves.Tulips display a range of symptoms from markings on the leaves and flowers with loss of vigour, to deformed plants and brown-streaked stems. Tulip bulbs

out containers ready to refill with fresh compost for autumn and winter pot displays, one of my children exclaimed "look what I've found ... one of those leaf bee things!" Sure enough, there in amongst the compost were several beautiful cylinders, each