found – our colder months

Seems like we’ve only just found our colder season. Until a few weeks ago we were enjoying balmy evenings while eating dinner outdoors, but now it’s crunch time. It’s time to be raking leaves and tidying up the look of the garden with some pruning of the season, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still be enjoying the flowers.

And that’s because if you’ve planted the right things you’ll have plenty of colour to enjoy for quite some time to come. The Flower Carpet® ground cover roses that we’re surrounded by in our test gardens are a case point. They’ve been going since spring and have coped very well with this year’s scorcher of a summer. And they’re still looking good. We’ve spent very little time (well, none actually) tidying them up which proves what we say, that the spent flowers just drop off by themselves. Which they’d want to, given these bushes produce so many.

Not that any garden should be limited to flowers alone. If you’ve some deciduous trees which colour around this time of year, it’s a bonus. So is any other foliage colour, which tends to be shown off at its best with the lower angle of the sun. Things like our Tropicanna® cannas and Red Fountain cordyline. (Ok, I admit, I am looking out my office window as I write this, but what I see is looking so lovely that it’s worth commenting on.) I believe that colour is happiness, and that these are the sorts of plants that deliver it without fuss.

So, go outside and enjoy your garden. Of course, if you look out and there’s not as much to enjoy as you’d like, this is a great time to fill in those gaps with plants that will repay the effort over and over again.

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As I was saying, I am very grateful for my Flower Carpet® ground cover roses. They work hard all year round, flowering from spring through to early winter, and this they do with not much effort on my part. Luckily they need very little in the way of water, food or even pruning (just a session with the hedge clippers in late winter). So many colours too. Do keep a look out for these evergreen wonders.

 

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