Think about autumn bedding
AS one door closes another opens, and as summer rides off into the horizon it’s time to bring a new pop of colour into the garden for autumn and winter. Get your autumn and spring bedding plants in now, while there is still a massive choice in garden centres and online. Plant them up and they will build robust root systems, grow and flower through autumn, then go dormant during the coldest months. As soon as the mercury starts to rise again next year they will return to growth and provide a blanket of brilliance throughout spring. Autumn and winter bedding is the same as spring bedding – an umbrella term used for plants that can go in the ground or containers between now and November. Their numbers include pansies, violas, wallflowers, daisy-like bellis,…