They always look lovely in any setting and are very hardy. They are also very versatile and will flower much longer than other bedding plants. There are lots of colour combos to choose from, so design a colour scheme and go crazy with pansies.
Bear in mind that they do best in a sunny location and if you want them to keep flowering, deadhead them often. Violas — Violas are another pretty and easy-to-grow bedding plant.
They look like pansies, but the flower head is smaller. Trailing varieties work well in hanging baskets, especially when interspersed with ivy. The flowers are pretty, and the leaves are attractively mottled, so they are a good choice for window boxes and containers. Heathers — Heathers make excellent bedding plants over winter. Find a store. Buy now. Related articles.
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Once all the air bubbles have escaped, remove the pot from the bucket and let it drain before planting. Bedding in pots and baskets requires watering every day, especially during the summer months.
Most composts for containers and baskets contain limited amounts of food. Within four to six weeks of planting, fast-growing, hungry bedding plants will have depleted most of the goodness in the compost. Make sure your feed contains plenty of potassium, which boosts flower growth and is a key ingredient in tomato fertiliser.
Follow the instructions and mix feed into one watering per week in summer. Another and easier way to be sure your plants never go short of food is to add slow-release fertiliser to your compost. Mix granules of feed, often combined with water-retaining gel, into the compost at planting time. Alternatively, use pellets of slow-release fertiliser granules, pushing these down into the compost.
As you water your pots from above, the resin coating of the granules slowly dissolves to release feed into the surrounding compost. Trailing forms are not as effective when planted out in the open soil as their trailing shape is lost. The bushy kinds are better, such as bedding dahlias, geraniums, busy lizzie, bedding begonia, arctotis, diascia, viola and petunias.
When using bedding plants in combinations, it can be effective to use both trailing and bushy kinds together, and some with large leaves or grassy foliage: hosta, sedges, grasses, sweet potato and bergenia.
Try to have plants with flowers of varied sizes too. For instance, petunias, tuberous begonias, arctotis, geraniums and verbena have large colourful flowers and bedding begonias, bacopa, lobelia, felicia, brachycome and bidens have small massed flowers that give a filled effect. Choose colours that match, such as red, pink, purple or yellow, orange red, or that contrast, blue against yellow, orange against purple.
Neutral colours can work with any others, such as white, brown, green, bronze, copper or black. The darker colours add a heavy brooding touch, the lighter ones lift the mood. White can be useful to cool down hot orange, red and purple. Choose colours that pick up a feature of the house or garden, such as paintwork on the house or other summer-flowering plants. Prepare early but do not be in a rush. A batch of plants could be lost to frost or severely damaged so they never fully recover.
It is safe enough to plant in southern coastal areas from early May but a full month later in cold, inland areas of the northern half of the country.
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