January may be the gloomiest of months, but plan now and you can look forward to a brighter future, courtesy of the most colourful summer flowers, says Louise Curley.
ARE the dark nights and the cold and grey of winter getting you down? Then what better way to cheer yourself up than by starting to plan a long season of colour in the garden. It might seem too early to be thinking ahead to summer, but garden planning is a very worthwhile New Year’s resolution to sign up to.
The key to packing the summer months with colour is growing as wide a mix of plants as possible. Look to summer-flowering bulbs such as gladioli, dahlias, cannas and begonias. Annuals will flower from June to the first frosts, and there are some perennials that – if sown early enough – will flower in their first year.
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