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setting seed, and to keep plants looking tidyWater hanging baskets and pots of summer-flowering bedding plants. Never let compost completely dry out or it can be very difficult to re-wet

their job and are beginning to die away for the Summer rest. So to keep the flowers big and bold, start feeding as soon as the 'noses' show through the soil in late winter. Sorry, Berghill - crossed my alliums with my daffs It is a question on knowing ones

, and overwinter tubers in cool dark conditionsPlant out spring beddingSow hardy annuals in cleared areas for early flowers next summerSow sweet peas in pots, and overwinter under coverPrune back standard roses to help prevent wind rock damaging the plants

areas in my garden and have filled them with summer plants and spring flowering bulbs but being a mother with a smallish budget i cant afford to keep buying seasonal bedding plants to keep the colour up in my garden so can any of you please suggest

So many of my favourite plants come from South Africa, a place that certainly feeds my appetite for bulbs. Moving on from the summer delights of agapanthus, gladioli, eucomis, galtonia, crocosmia and a host of others, I enter autumn with pots

are usually flowering in May/June so I wouldn't move or divide them then Thanks guys.  I will wait until they have died back and fed the bulbs, then dig them up and move them.  Are we taking about rhizomatous iris, or bulbs?  Not that it makes a differene

- thank you. can you cut Agapanthus flowers ,& do they re grow that season I have been given an Agapanthus this summer and have put itin a sunny spot, I was told you put it straight in the ground.It has flowered beautifull all through the summer, so can

Empty glazed pots that aren't frost-proof, and move under coverSend off for mail-order seed catalogues and start planning seed ordersScoop fallen leaves and rotting plant debris from pondsOrder summer-flowering bulbs such as lilies and gladioliGet hold of some

don't know why the Tulips you buy don't flower, because a bulb is pretty much guaranteed to flower in its first year. All the work has been done for you, provided the supplier is decent. After flowering, the bulb needs six weeks of food and water

article. I'm keen to have a go.I have a question... Last year I bought two trailing begonia corms. They flowered last summer and died off around Autumn. I then stored them over winter and re-planted them in spring this year. Neither of them grew over