Winter Bedding Plants

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Winter bedding plants can add colour and vibrancy to an area in your outside space, helping to prolong the flowering season into the cold months, when there isn’t a lot of colour elsewhere.

They can be used in a corner of the garden that may have been neglected and needs some tlc, or even dotted around in pots, containers and window boxes to produce pockets of colour to lift people's mood in the cold dark months.

Some of the most common winter bedding plants are Winter Pansies, Polyanthus, Primrose, Violas and Cyclamen.

Planting.

The winter bedding plants should be planted in autumn to give them a little time to get established before the cold weather sets in, so should be planted in their final flowering position.

If you’re planting in pots, containers, window boxes, or hanging baskets, it’s best to replace any compost, as any previous plants will have used up the nutrients.

Aftercare.

The beauty of winter bedding plants is that they need very little aftercare. They’re unlikely to need any watering, as the UK climate tends to provide us with more than enough water during the winter months. So that only really leaves dead heading any spent flowers to encourage new blooms.

Thank you to Jelena Senicic for this beautiful image (unsplash.com/@senchy)

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