never have any luck with planting

bloomin_freezing

Can anyone please advise how i can have all year round blooms?

I only plant in tubs or hanging baskets as the soil in opur garden is rubbish, we buy compost and plants from local garden centres and look after them as best we can but after a few months they die off.

whats the best thing to do.....? I was thinking of buying a mix of summer/winter bulbs planting them all together in a tub, keep watering them and hopefully end up with blooms all year round.

would this work?

sorry i'm such a novice!

Jayar

I'm not sure about putting so many bulbs in the one planter, they'd be a bit crowded. I do something similar with my windowboxes. I have a spring one, a summer one and a winter one. The Spring one is crocuses and mini daffs, I put annuals in the summer one and the winter one is mainly evergreen plants usually with a cyclamen for colour. I just change them around as the season changes.

nodwah

I do a similar thing to Jayar: But I tend to buy the sad plants at B&Q cheaply and when they're done flowering I plant them somewhere in the garden, them next year dig them up when thery're just about to flower and put them in the planters. I also plant bulbs in a pot which will fit inside the planter so that when they're done the whole pot can be lifted out and put somewher til the leaves die down. If I were a good gardener I'd label them ,but I usually don't so I'm not sure what I'm putting in the next year. It is better I think to keep the different types of bulbs separate coz as one lot is coming up you'll get the display spoiled by the dying leaves of the previous ones and a pet hate of mine is the mixed bag of daffs that you get - I was given some once and grew them in individual pots so I could group similar types together for the next year. likewise IMHO a pot with a single tyoe of bulb is much more striking than a mixture