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Flowers checklist

Flowers checklist

7 - 13 April 2008

Planting perennial wallflowers

Use this page as a checklist for this week's most important tasks.

It's printer friendly so you could pin it up in your garden shed.

It's time to...

It's time to...
  • Plant out perennials in groups of three, five or seven for maximum effect
  • Sprinkle fertiliser around clumps of tulips to boost flowering
  • Sow hardy annual flowers directly into beds where you'd like them to bloom
  • Prune Himalayan honeysuckle (Leycesteria)
  • Pick off dead flower heads from spring bulbs
  • Protect emerging shoots of delphiniums and lupins from slugs and snails using a barrier such as copper tape for pots or garlic granules

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