Perk up your patio: Fancy a 暴動 of colour 権利 outside your 支援する door all summer long? Here's how to create one

By Toby Buckland
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You don’t need a 銀行業者’s 特別手当 to brighten up your patio ? there’s an array of affordable コンテナ bedding 工場／植物s that’ll fit the 法案. They won’t 生き残る a British winter but （不足などを）補う for it by flowering all summer ? and now more and more of them are 配達するd direct to your door.

黒人／ボイコット is 支援する in the 形態／調整 of two new petunias. ‘黒人／ボイコット Velvet’ (£9.99 for five 工場／植物s, Mr Fothergill’s) is a dark plum colour, while ‘Phantom’ (£9.99 for five plugs, Thompson & Morgan) is overlaid with a lime-yellow 星／主役にする.

Phantom would look lovely with a leafy 追跡する of lime-leaved ipomoea, or 連合させるd with the white 泡，激怒すること-flowers of Euphorbia ‘Diamond 霜’. Pinch off faded flowers between finger and thumb, water every day when it’s hot and 料金d 週刊誌 with a high-potash fertiliser like Tomorite.

Compact colours: You don't need a huge garden to have a bright outdoor space

Compact colours: You don't need a 抱擁する garden to have a 有望な outdoor space

The Cape daisy, osteospermum (£14.98 for 12 mixed plugs, J. Parker’s), has larger-than-life flower 長，率いるs and keeps from year to year as cuttings in a 温室. Both the dark purple and apricot shades team up stylishly in terracotta コンテナs with the bronze blades of ponytail grass, Stipa tenuissima.

Classic geraniums, 一方／合間, will make you feel summery even on grey days. The ivy-leaved geraniums (£11.99 for 12 plugs, RHS 工場／植物s) 追跡する with abandon from window boxes.

Geraniums will make you feel summery even on grey days

Geraniums will make you feel summery even on grey days

Flowers come in pink, white, magenta, 中心存在-box red and chocolaty-mahogany. 工場／植物 in groups in c ontainers or intersperse with apricot-coloured diascia or Petunia calibrachoa.

For a larger マリファナ with fragrance and stature, try datura (£8.49 per 工場／植物, J. Parker’s). The 巨大（な） 上昇傾向d trombones produce flowers with the sweetest perfume imaginable. Keep fed and watered and it’ll be 長，率いる 高さ by summer.

Foodies should check out the colourful chilli collection (£7.95 for five, Mr. Fothergill’s). Group in the sun with マリファナs of French marigolds, whose orange petals you can steam to flavour your rice.

Keep all your 工場／植物s somewhere 有望な but not outdoors, as a late 霜 will kill them. If you like, you can start 工場／植物ing them in コンテナs now to place outdoors after the last 霜s.

www.thompson-morgan.com; www.suttons.co.uk; www.jparkers. co.uk; www.mr-fothergills.co.uk; www.rhsplants.co.uk


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