With pretty white flowers delicious berries and fiery autumn foliage these acid loving plants provide constant interest.
Bulbs to plant in december uk.
This winter feels milder than usual and so planting bulbs in december is a perfect time to plant them.
Vegetable seeds to sow in december onions some varieties of onions such as setton can be sown under glass in january and february to provide harvests from late summer.
And then they go.
They do their fabulous thing.
Can i plant spring bulbs in december.
When to plant bulbs.
Bulbs don t pretend they are there to provide bulk or structure.
Strawberry plants can be planted now for a crop of sweet berries in the summer.
Here are sarah raven s favourite veg herb salad and flower seeds that are ideal for sowing before christmas.
Plant spring flowering bulbs such as daffodils crocus and hyacinths preferably by the end of september.
Plant tulips in november.
Plant blackberries any time between now and the spring.
Crocus normal spring flowering crocus should be planted in autumn as bulbs corms but are also available at potted clumps in spring.
Planting bulbs in december isn t too late as long as the frost hasn t settled yet and it hasn t snowed.
Crocosmia montbretia best planted as dry bulbs in autumn but are available as pot grown flowering plants in mid to late summer.
Plant blueberries this winter for an attractive addition to the fruit garden.
Moving into my new house soon and it s got a garden.
Buy onion seeds from suttons.
Pink hardy cyclamen flowering in a patio container with grass and heather.
Bulbs are the most glittering performers on the garden stage.
There s lots to harvest but very little to plant out or sow in december.
Hardy cyclamen cyclamen coum are a welcome sight as the flowers push up through the soil in the middle of winter.
Other december flowering favourites include christmas box viburnum tinus and winter honeysuckle.
Plant hardy summer flowering bulbs such as lilies alliums and crocosmia in september and october.
As r gardening is very much us based i wanted somewhere that uk gardeners can share their successes tips and advice with the other gardeners here in the uk.
Another bonus of planting bulbs in december is that you ll find a lot of places selling bulbs at a huge discount.
However you can sow in december to give them a head start resulting in bigger bulbs.
Planting bulbs in december.