0:00 Helenium, now you can't beat a little bit of Greek first thing in the morning,

0:04 and i tell you what this is a little bit of Greek that you really do want.

0:09 Heleniums are beautiful in your border with Rudbeckias, Echinaceas, Lupins; these are

0:15 fantastic a good ale plug 5 and 1/2 centimeters, it doesn't really get any

0:21 better than that, the roots are bursting it can't wait to grow, there's still a

0:25 bit of frost around but it won't bother these things, a few crocks in the bottom

0:29 of your pots, now you can put them in the border if you're ready for them going

0:33 out in the border do it but I'm not quite ready yet so all you need is a

0:38 multi-purpose compost in a 1 liter pot like this, just bear in mind these are

0:43 going to get to a good size plant, and that's all you need to do but that's a

0:47 beautiful thing, pop that in. They're perfectly hardy, they're perennials so they

0:54 grow year after year now no border would be complete without Heleniums, the

0:59 russets and reds, bronzes, the colour is beautiful a type of coneflower but clump

1:05 forming and beautiful, they make a really good cut flower too and there's lots

1:10 and lots of colours to choose from. Deadhead them when the flowers are

1:13 starting to fade and you'll get a lot more flowers to come, it's as simple and

1:20 as easy as that keep them damp keep them moist, if you

1:22 get a dry spell which looks unlikely when the frost's are past, what

1:29 you need to do is get those in because they're going to grow away, they're going

1:32 to be fantastic. Heleniums, russets and reds in your

1:35 borders, with that Goldstum, beautiful, you can have a fantastic

1:39 herbacious border with these, brilliant.

1:50 now there's a little triangular soil here in front of these Hamrick alleys

1:54 that cries out for for a plant and these Helene iums are beautiful and three of

2:00 those in here I say three because you were always plant in uneven numbers

2:05 because nature hates a straight line and something in our brain says you make

2:09 them nice and tidy so if you plant three you're making a little triangle and it

2:13 will grow up like one plant now you can grow them in a pot like this these are

2:17 the the plugs that are planted on and growing on just this year they've not

2:21 been that they've not been here long now probably a couple of months they want

2:25 the girl for fun but come back in a couple of months and I tell you what

2:28 you're gonna get a bit of a show