Best Flowers for Hanging Baskets

Best Flowers for Hanging Baskets

Choose Flowers with a Trailing Growth Habit When selecting flowers for your hanging basket, choosing flowers with a trailing growth habit is important. These flowers will spill over the sides of the basket and create a beautiful cascading effect. Some popular trailing flowers for hanging baskets include petunias, million bells (calibrachoa), and trailing lobelia. These…

How to Keep Hanging Baskets Flowering All Summer Long!

How to Keep Hanging Baskets Flowering All Summer Long!

Hanging baskets can bring life and colour to outdoor spaces throughout the summer months. However, maintaining their constant flowering can be a challenge for many gardeners. Larger Hanging Baskets This is something that is often overlooked when it comes to hanging baskets, but something that I feel is very important. The larger the hanging basket…

4 Great Reasons to Grow Nasturtiums in Your Veg Garden

4 Great Reasons to Grow Nasturtiums in Your Veg Garden

Nasturtiums are versatile and easy-to-grow plants that can provide a range of benefits to your vegetable garden. Here are some of the main reasons to consider growing nasturtiums alongside those veggies. 1. Attracting Pollinators One of the most significant benefits of growing nasturtiums is their ability to attract pollinators. Nasturtiums are excellent at attracting pollinators…

Why You Should Plant Marigolds With Your Tomatoes This Year
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Why You Should Plant Marigolds With Your Tomatoes This Year

Many people know that growing marigolds with tomatoes is a good idea, but they don’t know why. Well, here are some of the top reasons why you should plant some marigolds with your tomatoes this year. After reading this list, I’m sure you’ll add a packet of marigold seeds to your next seed order! Slug…

Does Rudbeckia Self Seed?

Does Rudbeckia Self Seed?

Rudbeckia is a charming perennial, or in some cases annual, flower. But does this delightful yellow flower self-seed? Or will it only spread through root growth? One interesting thing that does occur if you let your rudbeckia self-seed is that the young plants that emerge will often have slightly different flowers to the parent plant….

Are Asters A Perennial?

Are Asters A Perennial?

Looking to grow some Asters but not sure whether they are an annual, perennial or even biennial? Let’s have a look and find out. So Are Asters Perennial? Yes, Asters are a perennial, with the proper care and attention they can keep coming back year after year. Chinese asters though, like the ones in the…

What Colour Are Primroses?

What Colour Are Primroses?

Primroses are a fantastic plant because they provide a pop of colour in very early spring when there really isn’t much else about. But what colours are primroses available in? let’s take a look and find out. Wild Primrose Vs Cultivated Varieties Wil primroses are always yellow, these are the gorgeous delicate flowers we are…

When To Plant Daffodils

When To Plant Daffodils

What time of year should you be planting your daffodil bulbs? Let’s have a look and find out! When To Plant Ideally, daffodils should be planted in early autumn. September is the ideal month, if you are late planting though you can still plant daffodils later in autumn and even in winter. These daffodils here…

I Have A Multi Headed Sunflower – Whats Going On?

I Have A Multi Headed Sunflower – Whats Going On?

So you are happily growing a sunflower, expecting one giant flower head but then notice multiple flower heads budding and appearing on your plant. What exactly is going on? Why do you have a multi-headed sunflower? So, what’s Going On? Well, the truth is that you have probably inadvertently grown a multi-headed sunflower. There are…

Do Bees like Hydrangeas?

Do Bees like Hydrangeas?

If you are looking to attract more bees to your garden then you need more plants that bees love. But what about hydrangeas? Do bees like hydrangeas? Do Bees like Hydrangeas? Mop Headed hydrangeas are sterile and will not attract bees at all as they have no pollen. Other hydrangeas though can be absolute bee…