GIVE your house a new look this summer by covering blank walls with hanging baskets packed with low bushy and trailing plants such as fuchsia, petunia, impatiens and begonia, all planted around a taller central plant such as a
bedding geranium.
You can reap at least 20 cuttings from a single fuchsia, petunia or
bedding geranium.
Known as
bedding geraniums, they make the most glorious displays from June until November.
Hundreds of
bedding geraniums and French marigolds have been planted in the nine beds near the castle keep as part of DZG's annual summer planting programme.
Divine is the first seed-raised variety introduced, in packs, similarly priced to
bedding geraniums.
EASY Sow
bedding geraniums in a heated greenhouse or propagator - soaking seeds in tepid water for 24 hours before planting will speed up the germination.
These are the
bedding geraniums, more correctly known as pelargoniums and our modern hybrids are all produced from seed these days for speed, uniformity, guaranteed flower colour and quality and many other features.
They must not however, be confused with the traditional summer
bedding Geraniums which are more correctly called Pelargoniums.
They must not, however, be confused with the traditional summer
bedding geraniums which are more correctly called Pelargoniums.
One group of perennials which I would never be without is the geraniums or cranesbills - not to be confused with the
bedding geraniums or pelargoniums.
Don't confuse them with their distant cousins, the bright and cheerful
bedding geraniums which are so useful for pots of summer colour.
Use key plants such as
bedding geraniums, begonia semperflorens, fuchsias and verbenas that are still in peak condition to build new recipes.
bedding geranium - an upright geranium having scalloped leaves with a broad color zone inside the margin and white or pink or red flowers