With the colder winter weather soon setting in, gardening experts have shared the one item you can add to your garden to brighten things up. If you still want your garden to be flourishing with colour and life over winter, there are some plants you’ll want to get into the ground before the end of November.
RHS has issued a timely reminder for gardeners to refresh their pots and containers before the end of November by adding one simple touch – a winter bedding plant. It says you should add winter bedding plants, including heathers and pansies, to brighten up pots and containers.
These hardy plants can withstand colder temperatures, bringing life to gardens, patios, and balconies during the darker months.
By planting these now, you can transform a dull pot into a bright display.
Heathers often grow wild in heathlands and open woodlands, but they are ideal for home gardens, the RHS says.
The plants need acidic soil, but otherwise are easy-going and low-maintenance.
RHS adds: “They produce a profusion of tiny flowers across various seasons, which are a valuable nectar source for bees, especially in winter.”
To add texture to your garden, you can combine your winter bedding plants with shrubs, bushes or other foliage.
As for pansies, BBC Gardener’s World says the flower is an ideal one for winter when little else is in bloom.
It says: “Pansies are short-lived perennials, popular for using in colourful pot and border displays.
“Their colourful flowers are often prettily marked in the centre and look like faces – sometimes with darker blotches, or ‘whiskered’, or plain.
“An enormous range of flower colours and variations includes blue, mauve, pink, purple, red, yellow, and white, they’re often bicoloured with a mixture of shades too.”
If you’re looking to add some colour to your garden this winter, you can’t miss out on planting these winter flowers this November.
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