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Brightening up the balcony with autumn bedding

It’s time to get ready for winter with colourful bedding plants on the balcony.

There comes a stage in any container garden when everything just heaves one big sigh and gives up. In just a couple of weeks, your carefully-planted paradise turns into a ragamuffin’s dream. It’s time, then, to dig out the autumn bedding plants.

Some of these are actually spring bedding plants: I’ve put in wallflowers for early spring colour, and ones that have flowers that will go really well with my bright red planter on the balcony too.

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Those non-wallflower plants that you can see in the middle are these lovely ornamental cabbages, which are going to make an enormous difference in the bleak midwinter, bringing a splash of colour.

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I’ve got two varieties of cabbage from Plant Me Now: purple and white, and they look so pretty already. I’ve mixed some of them in with violas, also from Plant Me Now’s winter bedding plant range, in the railing planters.

 

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So, winter, bring whatever you can. I’m ready for you, with my lovely balcony bedding plants.

One Response

  1. Lola

    Beautiful balcony, and you have given me a few ideas for my own garden for the winter months

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