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Whats your fave Summer plants?

Mine are Pansey, Gazania's, bacopa, Verbena.

Seems to be a shortage of Begonia non-stops in the country!

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Elaine can I pick your brains pls?
I was going to pick up some lovely violas the other day for a hanging basket but the blurb said that they'd flower from March (I think) to June - is that right? Will they flower throughout the summer for me if I keep dead heading them?
Thanks!

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Yes they will flower all throughout Summer. Once you pick them well. If they look too gone over..then they are an older batch/but should still flower through Summer. If they look young they are perfect to plant out now.
We grow/have Pansies and Violas all year round and the Summer ones for now will be fine i guarantee you.

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Thank you! They would be nice in the basket at the front door - lovely scent. Will do some planting tomorrow

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In da hood: Little man (Feb 04), Shortie (Sep 05) & Wee-Bey(bee) - aka Stinkum! (Sep 08)
Currently loving 'The Wire'!

I planted sweetpeas into my hanging baskets a couple of months ago thinking they would trail down but right now they're sticking straight up about a foot high, not the look I was going for . I've been looking for ideas for the planters in the front so I'm off to google gazanias and bacopa now.

i have sweet williams in my big pots & my god they are Blooming in this sun,pansies are doing ok too..my marigolds are still green folage still waitng on them to flower..but only planted them 2 weeks ago

Lobelia are my current favourite, my rabbit keeps eating them though before they get a chance to flower, grrrrrrrrr!

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Reach high, think big, work hard, have fun! 

Im eagerly waiting on my potted aliums and agapanthus to bloom. Got some more agapanthus at the weekend. Love it. Dont bother with hanging baskets.

In the garden - my alliums are all open now, happy days and I have a patch of old chives i let go to seed so i can use the flower heads in salads - love them

Favourite for baskets which i planted up last weekend:
Bacopa - a must
hanging baby tomatoes - always go down well
strawberries
Petunia - mix
Lobelia blue and white
nastiurtiums - i pickle the seeds and use the flowers in salads

just plain and simple - and for pots:
Sunflowers
Lobelia - I use the blue and white in huge clumps and always looks well

I keep our pots very simple as the garden is very colourful.

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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ' thank you,' that would suffice.

I have no idea what i put in my pots....I am a total useless person in the garden, but lots and lots of color! I love looking at them and it makes me smile...

Bacopa very popular, and you'd be very lucky to find whoever stocks a purple and pink one.

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Begonias, geraniums and some yellow flower whose name escapes me, lobellias. Petunias in hanging baskets with trailing lobellia. Haven't spent as much as in previous years (20 tubs and 4 hanging basets) - bought smaller plants etc and it seems to be doing v well!

They are not my favourite but last year they did really well! One thing I'm utterly staying away from forever are busy Lizzies. Last year they seemed to melt in our pots. I thought it was our wet summer but was talking to a person who wholesales plants and she said last year they got a fungus and she wasn't growing any this year.

I also stuck some dwarf sunflower seeds in tubs and they seem to be coming along v well. So next year will really experiment with growing more myself without need for tunnells etc.