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in my sunny conservatory and outside in the summer. All of them at some point have had a tern outside and all seem to do well. They are so easy to propergate that you can keep rejuvanating your displays. I have a few different Aloes which are fantastic

strawberries now non stop for 6wks.Took runners off my old plants last year and created a new bed on the allotment to give fresh ground and left old one fallow this year.I think it worked well as the old one was probably worn out.Can anyone suggest a very late

spring bloom.We have had a wonderful display but wonder how and when they need to be cut back. I dont seem to be able to get past the adverts!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wallflowers are basically a short lived spring flowering perennial so you sow from seed in May

I live in South West France and this year we have had a wonderful display of japanese anemones, although now finished, we do seem to be about a month ahead of england with most things, i find they flower in almost any part of the garden, full sun

disappointing tulip displays recently. Yes, I agree. Tulips do need water when growing, and have to be watered when in tubs if there isn't enough rainfall. This happened to many of mine, and now Tulip Fire has spread through the lot.  I sincerely hope this isn

disturbance either so are best planted out and then left in situ for a few years.    You could try growing them in a raised bed or large trough to reduce the bending but I find most of mine show off their flowers quite well especially after I've pruned out

a couple of wide but shallow pots that I put a kind of hanging-baskety display into every summer. I sit them in the top of my clem pot both to cover its scruffy ankles up and keep its roots cool. Works really well. Saves the bedding competing

now. I have to restrain myself from putting cardboard out for recycling as it will all be needed on my raised beds. I compost everything possible and only let the green wheelie bin have bramble roots and yucca which will not rot for me as I don’t want

with contrasting heights, leaf forms and sizes.   If you do some research, you can have something in flower every month but most perennials will die back underground for the winter and thus leave the evergreens and bare stems on display.    Plants

i have just visited a gc, and was greated with a good morning, followed by a member of staff coming up to me as i looked at their display of cyclamen, advising me to keep away from heat and water from the bottom, [the cyclamen that is!] subsequently