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What shrubs/plants can I plant now for instant colour!!
Paul Anderson
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My sister wants some instant colour in her garden now & for the summer, any ideas anyone 
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Best advice, go to the garden centre and look for something to suit the bill.
Right now everything is coming into bloom or will be soon, especially with the warm weather we are having. Planting conditions are ideal so the choice is huge. Go along with her and hold her hand.
Just bear in mind her soil conditions aspect and eventual size of the plant.
It's difficult to give specific advice without knowing the conditions.
Ok cool, I will go to a couple of nursery's and see. He has a very established garden but has gaps and wants it filled with colour now as she has plenty of evergreen and nothing in colour now. Off course I realise all shrubs/plants have different flowering times but I would want to plant them in the next two weeks, its a north facing garden at the front and south at the back. Soil is standard clay.
I would suggest that she goes to the garden centre at different times of the year such as early spring, late spring, early summer, mid summer, late summer, autumn and winter and buy a few plants that look good at each these different times. Hopefully, she will end up with a garden that has something of interest throughout the year.
One plant that I would recommend as looking good from early summer right through to the beginning of the autumn is Geranium 'Rozanne.'