Seasonal bedding rethink
Amateur Gardening|September 05, 2020
Longer-flowering new plants create a challenge, says Peter
Peter Seabrook
Seasonal bedding rethink

SEASONAL bedding traditionally consisted of autumn-planted forget-me-nots, or wallflowers under-planted with tulips and polyanthus with muscari, all stripped out late May, to be followed by frost-tender summer-flowering begonias, zonal geraniums, petunias, salvias and so on. The arrival of winter-flowering pansies and violas changed things, flowering well into summer.

The shrinking size of gardens in new housing, wider use of patio pots and the longer flowering season provided by modern hybrids have changed things.

This story is from the September 05, 2020 edition of Amateur Gardening.

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