Amateur Gardening

How to grow… Seasonal baskets

Top Tip

Tend your baskets every few days by deadheading, trimming any plants that are swamping others and, if necessary, replacing any failing plants.

FOR bringing colour up to buildings and for decorating the vertical spaces of gardens small and large, you can’t beat seasonally planted baskets, pots and windowboxes.

The range of cascading tender perennials is stunning; I find the unusual shades and colour combinations) or the inflated, slipper-like flowers of ‘Sunshine Yellow’.

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