Summer Bedding/Trailing Plants

Impatien New Guinea

Jeff demonstrates how to plant impatien new guinea for a striking summer patio container display.

These plants are fantastic for brightening up patios with beautiful colour displays in pots or hanging baskets. As Jeff points out, the premium price for these plants as fully grown potted displays by Summertime means you’ll save a lot of money simply investing some time now. With Jeff’s advice you’ll have no problem achieving that beautiful display for a fraction of the price tag, it’s well worth it.

 

These plants provide terrific character, both with beautiful colour shades and exotic foliage. They are very easy to grow and will really make and impressive addition to your Summer displays.

Million Bells

Jeff shows us how to plant Million Bells or Calibrachoa into containers for an attractive summer display.

These plants are terrific for their fantastic colours and the sheer density of their blooms. Aptly named, million bells will produce tonnes of attractive little flowers. They are perfect for hanging baskets and will make a truly stunning display in the summer. As Jeff says, just remember to water them and you can’t go wrong! The amazing growth rate of this plant means this is particularly, as they’ll need plenty of water to keep growing.

Pansy Cascadiz

In this video Jeff walks through how to grow Pansy Cascadiz in a hanging basket for a colourful summer show.

Pansy Cascadiz will make a terrific hanging basket display. Multi-flowering with a terrific display of colours, these great plants are wonderful for bringing a burst of colour to your patio and can be grown very easily with little effort. With a little time invested now, the payoff in summer will be well worth it and, particularly with Jeff’s advice, you can’t fail!

Petunia Frenzy

Jeff talks through how to plant Petunia frenzy, planting on young plants into larger containers to grow on before potting up.

Petunia Frenzy are great for their beautiful summer colour and interestingly veined, marked petals. They will quickly create a bright and beautiful display in pots or in your border, flowering beautifully in early to mid-summer right the way into autumn until the first frosts come. These are really fantastic flowers for a long lasting show, and with Jeff’s tips you’ll have no problem creating a striking display.

Surfinia

Jeff shows us how to plant Surfinia in hanging baskets for an attractive Summer display.

Surfinia are terrific for their fantastic colours and masses of flowers. They are ideal for hanging baskets and will create a superb display in summer. As mentioned by Jeff, just remember to water them as the impressive rapid growth rate of these plants means it is particularly important to keep them well fed and watered.

 

Million Bells and Surfinia are both great plants for hanging baskets, they compliment each other well and are very similar in their planting.

Geranium Century

Jeff demonstrates how to grow on Geranium Century in this video tutorial guide.

These geranium are a terrific addition to any garden. They are traditional favourites for summer bedding and will look beautiful flowering with eye catching shapes and colours which will add plenty of character and interest to your display.

Trailing Geranium

Jeff demonstrates how to pant trailing geraniums for summer container displays. See just how easy it is to grow these great plants in this helpful video guide.

Geraniums are popular regular additions to the summer garden, and these trailing geraniums will be a fantastic container display. Pots and window boxes will look superb smothered in an avalanche of colour, and these varieties are fantastically easy to grow particularly with a little guidance from Jeff!

 

Ivy leaf varieties of single flowering geraniums are famously found in Alpine Europe and Germany, but you can easily achieve such a display in the UK. The colours are bright and beautiful and are available in a wide range of shades. They are also hardy enough to maintain an impressive display throughout the Great British summer!

Giant Fuchsias

Jeff covers how to grow Fuchsias in this video guide. If you want to know how to grow beautiful giant Fuchias in hanging baskets this is the video you need!

Fuchias are a massively popular plant for hanging basket displays. These giant varieties will produce distinctively shaped, huge flowers in a range of wonderful shades throughout the summer. Your hanging baskets will look fantastic smothered in these stunning flowers and they will brighten up any display with interesting shapes and shades. The reason for the popularity of these plants is clear, and with Jeff’s help they are fantastically easy to grow.