Bedding Plants

Davesnave

peter_the_piper wrote: »

With our forecast due to give 4-5deg at night I wonder when summer will start.

If I didn't have some photos of haymaking going on, I'd believe that it didn't happen at all in 2012. That was late July! :rotfl:

southerly

peter_the_piper wrote: »

The trade threw away over £50 million in unwanted plants cos people did not buy them I wanted to know if the duff spring (4 weeks late down here) had had an effect on peoples plans to plant bedding.

That's a shame all the work and cost in raising them going to waste. I wondered if there was an excess as I bought trays with 6 large violas & pansies in Poundland and thought there can't be any profit in that for the grower. I bought more bedding this year as happened to find it so cheap, also in Wilkos pansies/double daisies/violas were reduced to £1.50 a tray of 6, (in good health, not reduced due to condition).

Won't be buying any half hardy bedding, (unless I see any more bargains). I am growing some from seed and take the begonias indoors every winter, getting a bit sick of them though.

lostinrates

I very rarely buy 'bedding'. I buy something's like geraniums that I don't use as bedding plants but rather use in pots in the house over winter after a summer in the garden. I rarely need to buy them....keeping the ones I have and propagating some from them when desired.

This year however, my puppy delighted in ripping most of them up from their pots and troughs.

I have bought some bedding this year, but because I wanted to pad out a new bed and sowing annuals has been tricky with the weather.

shegar

I have not bought bedding plants for the past 8 years, I just got fed up with buying them every year and they only last 3 months ish, seems like such a waste of money to me , plus having to water them....

So I bought quite a few of different perennials which flower from spring to autumn, come up every year and they spread so you can do division to get more free plants, plus once they are established they dont need watering, result, never ending flower borders ......:DPretty and very cheap.....

pollypenny

I just needed to do some infilling. Strangely I found myself buying plants to do two, just two, baskets!

I'll be away in June, so will be dependent on my neighbour to eater them.

The geraniums in pots will manage in the rain.