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Bare spots
Watery
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I have some bare patches from where I pulled out my annual poppies. Anything I can sow there or is it too late. I'm trying to keep from buying any new plants as I've already spent too much this year.
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This is where it is useful to have some potted lilies or dahlias or whatever to stick in, either decanted or even left still in their pots to be changed again later. No, I don't remember to do it in time either!
Ok thanks. I was afraid of that. But if I have to buy something....
Verduns right. This is where winter comes in, you plan your seed sowing, perennial growing cuttings etc, so you always have something to put in the gaps. Now you should have heleniums, echinacea rudbeckia gaillardia etc ready for late summer/autumn flowering.
Astilbe are flowering now and for the next month.
Sow some dahlia seeds next spring, they will star flowering now until October.
you could direct sow something like night scented stock, they don't take long to germinate and come up or you could try some where like hombase etc on a monday when they try to sell off their weekend plants ready for the new delivery, they tend not to look after them very well and can look half dead but only need a lot of water, you can get really good bargins