Hi Wendy welcome to the forum, I'm sure you will get loads of good tips and help on here. I am fairly new too and you sound a bit like me....wanting spring now because we want it get started. I have made my sweet pea pots today and am sowing my seeds hopefully later. Sweet peas are lovely in big pots and you can start them now if you want to get going
Your head will be buzzing with ideas Wendy, mine is after not even a week on here, already planning changes to the garden which were not previously being considered!! I also love my pots though, even though I have a wide border. I have tree Lillie's in pots and bought some cheap at the end of last summer as they were dying off so can't wait to see what they look like. I've also planted 3 varieties of tulips (from GW) in 3 different pots, they are just starting to pop up and I can't wait to see what they look like either. This summer is going to be so colourful and exciting
I'm lucky enough to have a big garden, but I have pots on the terraces around the house. I'm growing winter pansies, violas (which are flowering now), bulbs, double daisies and wallflowers. In late May these will be past their best and I plant up the pots with summer bedding. I also have large pots with roses, clematis, a star jasmine, a golden philadelphus and a dwarf rhododendron.
Violas should still be on sale in garden centres now, also primroses, for some colour until it's warm enough for summer plants.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thank you all for saying hello and its great to know there are other new ones on this forum, I have quite a well-established balcony but its the new planters (FORECOURT) i need to know more about as never had a garden for years. So i am lucky it may be 2 degree warmer as Inner London great news.
I live near London Bridge and Borough market
I have always wanted a honeysuckle, some i have hard wood cutting in doors i am hoping they root. I then hope to transfer into the planters downstairs when they take, hopefully, if not will buy a honeysuckle or 2
I have lost of violas pansies and bulbs if snowdrops and crochus coming up on my balcony and small daffs.
The honeysuckles will need something to cling to as they grow so I hope your large planters are near a wall or trellis. I use euonymous, grasses and heuchera in planters as they give year round colour and are happy in sun or shade. They make a good background to summer annuals too. Last year I grew chrysanthemum Snowland in a container for a mini-meadow look; they are almost maintenance free apart from a bit of dead heading now and again. If you are growing a climber like honeysuckle you could chuck in a clematis for company.
Hi yes there are railing at the back of the big planters so would be good for climbers, i don't know much about clematis. Let me see if i can post the planters i have been caring for, they were put in about 4 years ago and have had no care whatsoever, so took a time to get both sorted out and had to cut down the ornamental grass it was so messy out so out of control.
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Wendy, you have one great advantage in where you live, temperature!
The temperature in inner london, just where you are in southwark, will be about 2 degrees above the temps shown on bbc weather forecasts.
The range of what you can grow will the envy of most of us.
You can grow tropicals and the whole range of what is grown normally in the UK.
Even in a confined space you can pack a lot in.
I envy the temperature, but not living in London, I know I lived down there for 20 years, but it was a great place to garden.
Hello Wendy.
I'm lucky enough to have a big garden, but I have pots on the terraces around the house. I'm growing winter pansies, violas (which are flowering now), bulbs, double daisies and wallflowers. In late May these will be past their best and I plant up the pots with summer bedding. I also have large pots with roses, clematis, a star jasmine, a golden philadelphus and a dwarf rhododendron.
Violas should still be on sale in garden centres now, also primroses, for some colour until it's warm enough for summer plants.
Thank you all for saying hello and its great to know there are other new ones on this forum, I have quite a well-established balcony but its the new planters (FORECOURT) i need to know more about as never had a garden for years. So i am lucky it may be 2 degree warmer as Inner London great news.
I live near London Bridge and Borough market
I have always wanted a honeysuckle, some i have hard wood cutting in doors i am hoping they root. I then hope to transfer into the planters downstairs when they take, hopefully, if not will buy a honeysuckle or 2
I have lost of violas pansies and bulbs if snowdrops and crochus coming up on my balcony and small daffs.
The honeysuckles will need something to cling to as they grow so I hope your large planters are near a wall or trellis. I use euonymous, grasses and heuchera in planters as they give year round colour and are happy in sun or shade. They make a good background to summer annuals too. Last year I grew chrysanthemum Snowland in a container for a mini-meadow look; they are almost maintenance free apart from a bit of dead heading now and again. If you are growing a climber like honeysuckle you could chuck in a clematis for company.
Hi yes there are railing at the back of the big planters so would be good for climbers, i don't know much about clematis. Let me see if i can post the planters i have been caring for, they were put in about 4 years ago and have had no care whatsoever, so took a time to get both sorted out and had to cut down the ornamental grass it was so messy out so out of control.