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they just garden around them and they get 20 to 30 flower heads a year. are new guinea perenils Reply to Mike: Impatiens tend to be treated as annuals, but these are really tender perennials. If you take cuttings and over winter in frost-free conditions you

and are enjoying the warmer weather and longer daylight hours. The perennials which never fail to amaze me are pushing up tender green growth from under the bare soil. After a very long wait I have daffodils in flower. The vibrant yellow is enough to cheer even

for gardening equipment too, I got a massive packet of fleece (for warming the ground prior to planting, and protecting tender perennial flowers) last year for about a fiver.  Don't bother with cloches, cut the top off a pop or squash bottle and use that instead

....hellebores, tender and perennial salvias, grasses, Acer flamingo, aster frikartii monch, Astrantias, Taxus Standishii, Taxus Coppershine, convolvulus cneorum, Heucheras, ......oops! My 10 is up. My top ten is probably boring but they are 1 sunflowers 2 Dahlias 3

and definitely need doing-you cant do much harm to make a start-it is not so much the exposed tissue that is at risk from frost but tender shoots-though think you will have to be pretty unlucky to get it wrong now Get snipping Many thanks ! Secateurs at the ready

50/50, I replace with tender perennials like blue salvias. In autumn the potted lupins are ready again to plant into the garden

to do it otherwise you may loose them. Last weekend I took loads of stuff out of the greenhouse, not tender things, last year's lavender from seed, hardy (more or less) salvias etc. On Friday I put them all back in Same here, i transported most of my

to be sowing some herbs. Basil and coriander for instance, like it to be warmer. Basil's a meditarenian plant, some varieties do better in our climate, than others, I grow Minette which does well here in the North West. I don't think it's worth sowing perennial

'll run out of space one of these years because of the number of them that self-seed! I too have poppies and nasturtiums back and without any of the nurturing that my perennials get. I wouldn't worry about sunflowers, by the way - I left one standing last

.of hellebores but when these are over that summer picture emerges, with the addition of a few tender perennials. Although maybe costing little more, it's best to plant a few quality plants than a load of cheap space fillers..viz., If there's a plant you want