Outdoor Gerberas – Plant now for Stunning colour!
Gerbera Garvinea is the first series of hardy Gerberas for the garden and offers a wonderful show of colour from now right up until early winter. This new series of outdoor flowering gerberas are easy to grow, free flowering and ideal for planting in flower or patio containers. Gerberas are now available in a wide choice of colours and because of their compact shape and free flowering ability are suitable for planting in flower beds, shrub borders and in mixed planted containers.
This new selection of outdoor varieties are ideal for picking like normal Gerberas to give you a super fresh bouquet for your home every week! Plant a selection of outdoor gerberas now for a great show of colour this summer!
Jobs in the garden this week..
- Baskets, window boxes ad patio planters should be planted this coming week with summer flowering plants. I recommend bush and trailing fuchsias, African daisies, geraniums, busie Lizzies and bonfire begonias as ideal plants to provide you with lots of colour all summer long
- June is the ideal time to Liquid feed vegetable and fruiting plants, tomatoes, cucumbers, marrows, courgette and aubergines will need weekly feeding with ONE liquid fertiliser. This will help to promote good fruit size and increase flavour Click here to see our ONE liquid plant food
- If you have sweet peas flowering in your garden, then lucky you, remember to cut the flowers each week, this will help to promote new flowers all summer long. Feed your sweet peas with a dressing of one liquid feed Click here to see our ONE liquid plant food
- Wallflowers, sweet William, antirrhinums, double daises, winter flowering pansies and polyanthus can be sown from seed now to provide you with lots of colour in winter and spring next year. Simply sow the seeds in seed trays of compost or directly out into ridges of soil. The plants will grow on during the summer and can be planted into flower beds and borders in autumn Click here to see our Flower Seeds
- Variegated popular is showing super colour this summer, the large pink, white and green leaves are produced all summer and now is the ideal time to plant a young variegated popular in your garden. Remember to prune the stems hard back in winter for a strong show of colour next summer. V. poplars are easy to grow and suit all soil types.
- There is still some time to plant tomato and pepper plants for lots of great pickings this summer. Look for strong mature plants and place in a warm sunny sheltered location Click here to see our pepper and tomato plants. Remember to feed weekly with one liquid feed and you can look forward to great tasting home grown fruit this summer Click here to see our ONE liquid plant feed
- Trailing petunias are one of the best summer flowering basket and patio plants you can plant this summer. Hot pink and Barney purple are two of the best varieties and will flower from now until early winter. They are ideal for creating a strong vivid display of colour. Take my advice and plant 3 trailing petunias in your baskets or window boxes for a stunning show of colour Click here to see our Petunias
- There is still plenty of time to sow garden herbs and vegetables from seed, soil tempetures are ideal at present for fast germination and quick growth. Sow herbs like chives, parsley, thyme, rosemary and lavender directly out of doors in seed trays or directly into the garden soil Click here to see our Herb Seeds. Veg plants including cauliflower, cabbage, leeks and lettuce can be sown now Click here to see our Vegetable Seeds
- Potash is important for all fruiting plants – Apply a dressing of Sulphate of potash to all fruiting plantings now, simply apply a handful of potash to the soil around the fruiting plants. Potash is beneficial to apples, pears, Plum, cherries, blackcurrants and gooseberries Click here to see our Sulphate of Potash
- Blight protection is still important on tomatoes and potatoes apply a dressing of the systemic Proximinal blight treatment to potato crops and tomato plants every two weeks throughout June for maximum protection Click here to see our Proximinal Blight Treatment
- June is an excellent month to plant flowering and foliage climbers; I recommend summer flowering clematis, scented honeysuckle, flowering hydrangeas and the lovely free flowering wisteria Click here to see our Climbing Plants. Remember to add organic compost to the planting hole when planting Click here to see our Compost
- Plant flowering Hydrangeas now, Many of the popular varieties re just coming into flower now and will flower right through to early autumn. This year look for the stunning new variety called Hydrangea Selma which produces deep red foliage followed with bright pink and white flowers. Also plant the lace cap hydrangeas now for colour this summer Click here to see our Hydrangeas
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