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Plant now or wait?

ShennyShenny Posts: 127
in Problem solving
I’m a new Gardner with a lot to learn. This is my second season. I’ve only got a small bed but I am very much enjoying the whole experience of planting especially in this lockdown. The bed is therefore brimming!Anyway long story short, my trip to the Sunday market today got me a bit carried away and I have come home With some bargain plants. What should be my next steps?:
a) shall I leave them in the plastic pots they have come in, leave them somewhere sheltered over the winter and then in the spring/autumn remove the temporary bedding plants from the garden bed and plant my Sunday Market shrubs?
b) start removing the bedding plants now, maybe replant those in pots and put the sunday market shrubs in now?
c) something else?
The Sunday market shrubs include 

Lobelia, red flowers

Choisya sundance

Astilbe Ellie 

Pieris japonica mountain fire 

Pittosporum Tom Thumb 

Noatraum carpet flower roses

Hydrangea teller pink

Any advice would be much appreciated  

Wish I had a big garden but I don’t.

I’m worried that if I plant the shrubs now they may need moving later on. 

Please help!

Thanks 


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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Basically it's up to you. You may find that by Autumn, the bedding us about done with anyway, which would be an excellent time to plant. Maybe one or two could go in now and enhance your bedding planting. Keep them in a bright but shaded spot while you decide, maybe pot them on into pots one size up from the ones they're in now.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Autumn is a good time for planting, as the soil is still warm which helps the roots get established. 
    As @Loxley says, the bedding plants will be running out of steam by then anyway.
    I would check over your bargains and see if any are really potbound, and also do some research into the position that they like, sun/shade etc.
    When you do come to plant, remember that preparation is the key. Pull out the old bedding and give it a good forking over as the soil may well have become compacted over the Summer months.
  • ShennyShenny Posts: 127
    Thank you. Yes I think I will Put most of them into bigger pots and check that they are not pot bound as AnniD has advised. 
    Once I have researched all the plants then I may plant one or two in the few gaps I have in the bed as Loxley has suggested. If I do this will it still be ok to move them in the Autumn when I come to plant the rest?
    I don’t know if I’ve got the confidence to move plants from one place to another. 

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    You can move them (I'm forever moving plants ! ) . Bear in mind that if they've only been in the ground a few weeks they probably won't have put on that much root growth, so it will probably be fairly easy to get them out. Just remember to try a dig out a slightly larger area round them so that you don't damage any new roots they may have put out.
  • ShennyShenny Posts: 127
    Ok. That makes me feel better. Thanks again. 
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