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    Containers for Summer colour

    May 10, 2022 5 minutes

    BY late spring and early summer, when there is no more danger of frost, bedding plants can live outdoors. This is the green light to dust down empty pots ready to receive a wide range of tender perennials and half-hardy annuals bred to bloom all summer and up to the first frosts of autumn. Gardeners who yearned after specific cultivars and colours of begonia or bidens will have ordered their plants for delivery and may have been nurturing them under glass or on windowsills since mid-spring. Yet there is a lot to recommend impulsive visits to garden centres, shows and stores nearer to setting-out time.

    Sun-loving plants

    Plants will be larger, flowers opening and it is fun to wander around picking out complementary shapes and colours, a pot or trough to match and containerplant compost. Bear in mind that smaller

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