Your year of FLOWERS

Autumn

Creating your own cut flower patch couldn’t be simpler. Start by preparing the area, removing any weeds, and add a mulch of garden compost to the soil surface.

You can start sowing hardy annuals right now, to the end of September, to provide an early crop of flowers next spring. Sow in traditional rows or, for a less formal look, mark out areas with sand and scatter different seeds into each one (see right).

If you didn’t now in garden centres. Then simply plant them where you want them to flower next year.