Winter bedding

[andy]

Anyone started their winter bedding planting yet ? I'm probably going out on friday or saturday this week to get me bulbs and plants.

All my bedding will be in tubs this year....each tub will have a contrasting or complimenting colour scheme for example :

Tub 1 Blue myosotis and pink tulips
Tub 2 Pink myosotis and yellow tulips
tub 3 Red pansies and white tulips
tub 4 yellow pansies and red tulips
tub 5 Blue pansies and orange tulips
tub 6 white pansies and purple tulips
tub 7 Rose pansies and green tulips

Thant's all i'm having. Tulips will hopefully be tall and all fower around April time.

[Missredhead]

I have planted up a couple of pots with dwarf tulips and some hanging baskets ...a couple just have purple pansies and one with white, yellow and purple. I also have one basket that has ivy, heathers and pansies. Still have a couple more baskets to plant up but haven't decided what to put in them yet.
The bulbs that are to be planted in the garden are waiting until the dahlias have died down so that I can pull them up...also lots of the summer bedding plants are still flowering really well and I am loath to pull them up yet just to start replacing them with winter plants and bulbs.

[Tig]

I planted my spring bulb purchases a few weeks back, but most of my established beds have been planted previously and I find if you plant tulips deeply they do come back up. As well as another 85 tulips, I've also planted more narcissus, crocus, anemones, alliums, fritillaria and hyacinths. I do try and plant in blocks of colour these days, and try to put colours together that don't clash I try and resist bags of mixed colour tulips, although over the years I have noted that you can sometimes 'match' them by comparing the colour of the bulb and skin

I've bought 26 winter pansies and dotted them in where I could find space, or in containers. Still gots lots in bloom from summer so won't pull anything out until it looks scruffy!

x Tig

[Auricula]

Oh Bu***r - I bought loads of bulbs about 3 weeks ago ............. and I have forgotten to plant them!!!!!

[Missredhead]

Theres still time Auricula

[Barbara]

I have about ten pots of just tulips, and three pots of blue winter pansies, I've had BIG pots of daffs behind the bench since last year , and my grape hyacinth are already growing, I plant my daffs in the bed where I take my sweet peas from in the front garden and they aint finished flowering yet. so a couple more weeks before they go in.

[isabella]

We have planted 8 sacks of daffs in the front garden today
In the 2 circular beds I have planted daffs and Apricot Beauty tulips and in the big planter a Goldcrest conifer with some Actea , Tulipa sylvestris and primroses - courtesy of T & M
They sent 84 Pansies,42 Primroses and 24 Violas to try out
When my bulbs arrive from de Jagers (part of my prize from Garden News) I will plant up some pots and baskets
I will buy 150 Wallflowers at the beginning of October and the garden will then be ready for Winter

[Tig]

I'm really looking forward to next spring now and seeing how we all get on

Last year some of my tulips were not what I was expecting colourwise! Black Hero turned out to be red, and another one (forgot the name at the minute) was shown as a purple but was pale lilac! If I was the sort to be bothered too much about colour co-ordination I could have been really upset ;D Anyone else had this problem?

x Tig

[Ladygardener]

I've planted loads of miniature Narcissi/Daffodils and Reticulata Iris. I've got the Hyacinth in and all the tiny bulbs which I normally do,Chinnodoxia, Muscari, Puschkinia. Some of the big Tulips are in, I know it's early but they're right and deep and I've planted some of the species tulips too.
In pots and dotted around the borders are the lovely Cyclamen Silverado and assorted oned. I've done a couple of containers for the front windows with Tete a Tete/Minnow and Red Sedge and Orange/yellow viola on top. It's amazing that some of the baby bulbs are showing green spikes already, I think it's the Muscari.

[Barbara]

I have planted mini Iris as well, and I can't wait to see the white double primroses that Ruthie sent to me flower.

My Muscari are sprouting as well LG.

[Dutchy]

No planting yet. Tulips go in after half October as it is still too warm for them. I might even wait till first of November.
Dafs waiting for a trip to MssK but they can go in once I checked the pics of last spring and find a space.
Blue bells, the English ones still waiting in a pot for transplanting to MssK.
I am uncertain here as they need moist forest floors instead of bone dry soil under a Plum tree I think
Grape hyacinth indeed already up in the green might dig some from my gravel and dump along the paths near my Studio.

Spring is in my mind ;D

[andy]

The good thing about tulips is that they can be planted almost up to christmas if it's mild.


Bought all the tulips and bedding today.....sixty bloody quid it cost me (too used to getting stuff for free !!!)

[isabella]

It will be worth every penny Andy

[Tig]

Sept 25, 2009 17:15:17 GMT Dutchy said:

No planting yet. Tulips go in after half October as it is still too warm for them. I might even wait till first of November.
Dafs waiting for a trip to MssK but they can go in once I checked the pics of last spring and find a space.
Blue bells, the English ones still waiting in a pot for transplanting to MssK.
I am uncertain here as they need moist forest floors instead of bone dry soil under a Plum tree I think Grape hyacinth indeed already up in the green might dig some from my gravel and dump along the paths near my Studio.

Spring is in my mind ;D

Dutchy I have English bluebells growing under my acers, they are in bone dry soil for most of our 'summer' and still put on a good show. Some have even managed to self-seed into the sunnier borders and they did rather too well last year (nearly classing them as weeds ;D)

I wasn't going to buy anymore bulbs, but spotted a red parrot type (Bastogne) in Wilkies today, 10 for £2 .. I must start and dig my new bed

x Tig