Whether you have a small plot, a patio, a balcony or just the front steps up to your house, you can still have a beautiful, colourful, seasonal garden to enjoy throughout the year. In this new series I’ll explain how to make a garden in containers using trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals and bulbs that don’t need to be replaced or replenished every year.
By choosing plants that straddle the seasons, flower for ages, come ‘true’ from seed or return reliably each year, you can enjoy a vibrant, flower-filled garden from as early as this summer.
Best of all, as this is a garden to plant just once, by using fewer plastic pots, fewer bags of potting compost and less water later, you’ll be reducing your carbon footprint and be growing…
