OLD FAVES RETURN

YESTERYEAR'S STANDBYS ARE BACK - BETTER, BIGGER AND MUCH MORE BOUNTIFUL!

- GRAHAM ROSS

As you sit indoors longing for spring, now is the time to start planning your garden – and what you can use to hide those niggling little garden failings that have bugged you for years. Perhaps it’s time to think about some of the old-fashioned flowering plants that have stood the test of time – so much so they are also moving with the times. New hybrids are stronger and more versatile and exploit the features that turn them from reliable standbys into desirables. They’re growing in nurseries now – ready for your spring planting!

1 SHRUG OFF THE BLUES

In the last dark, dying days of winter, what could excite you more about spring than a garden bed, window box or little pot full of pansies? If you’ve sown seeds in early autumn or seedlings late in the season, this is what you’re about to see!

PANSIES