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As temperatures rise and summer sets in, give your container plants a little time and care. Water, feed and deadhead them regularly over the next few weeks and you can keep plants flowering and looking good right into autumn.Container plants

i SAW GARDENERS WORLD WITH MONTY DON THIS EVENING AND HE WAS TALKING ABOUT PLANTING GREEN MANURE. i WANT TO KNOW WHICH GREEN MANURE I PLANT FOR CABBAGES - MAYBE YOU CAN LET ME KNOWTHANKS My neighbour has a lovely red flower/bulb in a pot but am

seed. Bedding plants benefit most from daily deadheading as it will extend the life of the plants and encourage them to continue producing more flowers through the summer.Scissors, floral snips or secateursMarch - late-August10 minutes a dayThe dying

on their own weight...some of the flowers fall after they get big. Regards  D Remove the dead flowers and their stems and put them in the compost.  Feed the bulbs with something like blood, fish and bone or pelleted chicken manure so they can fatten up for next

, lupins, etc have reached the backend of their season.   Il try that trick with breaking open the leaf though. Looks like a Crinum to me. It is a summer flowering bulb, can be evergreen (mine is) Could be that it hasn't reached flowering size. Last owner

or trays, including basil, chives, parsley, fennel and coriander Plant up pots with the summer-flowering bulbs tiger flower (Tigridia), gloriosa and eucomisStart feeding houseplants weekly with a liquid feedPinch out shoot tips on fuchsias to encourage

Stands about 3 feet tall, flowers from bottom upwards, as it continues to grow the flower stered loomed in May this year. Name similar to camas is, but RHS plant finder unable to assist. Will to split bulb/corm later this summer.   Camassia

I planted my pots with daffodils so I had a show of colour in the garden after winter now they have flowered and died I want my pots for my spring/summer planting. how do I remove the daffodli bulbs from my pots and store them so I can use again

appear as soon as any snow cover is gone and they grow rapidly to take advantage of the short Spring/Summer weather. then as the temperatures drop, the flower spike appears and as the leaves have done their job they begin to take food back into the bulb

and less bulbs flower, and I assume this is due to them sucking out more nutrients than I have replaced. So this year I have lifted and dried them, and prepared new beds incorporating really well rotted horse manure and Growmore granules. So, my question is