19/05/2013
I know it seems a long way away, but its worth thinking about colour in the garden during the winter of next year.
I know it seems a long way away, but its worth thinking about colour in the garden during the winter of next year and one of the best ways is to use one of my favourite little plants, and that's Woodland Cyclamen. It looks especially good growing under trees which is one of its unique selling points as most plants like to to have plenty of light. Not so Woodland Cyclamen. Have a look on your travels and you may find Cyclamen already flowering in pots, but you want the miniature types as these will go throught the winter. Buy them in flower and once they start to go over then plant them under trees and forgaet about the. With luck you will see them breaking through the frosted ground of winter to give a fine display.
I'm a great fan of fruiting trees and feel we should all have at least one in our gardens. You don't need a lot of spare space as you did years ago because the plant breeders have made it possible to plant fruiting trees against walls and fences and sometimes in containers because grafting the variety on to dwarf rootstock's means less growth.
Try Plant Morello Cherry fan trained against a wall or fence now in a sheltered place will give you super cherries ripe for bottling and preserving in the winter.
Grape Hyacinth (Muscari Latifolium) with its little blus flowers will be coming to the end of its flowering time now so just trim back the old flower heads and leave the foliage to grow on. A little general fertilizer will help the growth on its way and provide better flowers for next spring.
Happy Gardening
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