The Gardener Magazine

7 creative GARDEN TWEAKS

1. Colour in a jiffy

If you were a bit lax with your planting programme for spring and early summer, and are missing out on colour around you, relax. Nurserymen did all the work for you during winter and their display areas will be filled with colour pots or bags with annuals, bi-annuals and early flowering perennials already in flower to give you a quick fix.

Put these in quickly!

And, let your pot overflow with…

Billowing Gypsophila ‘Gypsy’ interplanted with Pelargonium ‘Top Roxy’.

2. Plug

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