Garden flowers for a July wedding in your garden
It can be tricky planning to produce flowers in your garden for an event such as a wedding or birthday party so often it’s best to plan with flowers that have a long flowering period in the month you are planning your event in this case July.
Another key factor is to plan ahead starting at least 8 to 10 months before the event
Container flowering plants – growing in John Inness number 2 compost potted early in the year they can be held back from flowering by placing them in a shady corner, or the flower can be brought forward by placing them in an unheated glasshouse for a few weeks.
Container grown roses ( match the variety to the time you wish them to flower )
Dahlias – a good standby plant to add colour to patios etc
From bulbs flowering plants – planted in your borders in the autumn
Allium bulbs – Allium x hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation’
From perennial flowering plants – planted in borders in the autumn using 3 litre pot grown plants
Iris sibirica ‘Silver Edge’
Hollyhocks
Achillea
Rudbeckias
Echinaceas
Astrantia
Oriental poppies (Papaver orientalis)
Geranium Johnsons blue
Helianthus annuus ‘Ms Mars’
Penstemon
Alstroemeria
Limonium platyphyllum
From seed flowering plants – sown on a window sill in late January and moved to an unheated glasshouse at the end of March
Mauve night-scented stocks.
Sweet peas
Climbers to growing in existing shrubs – planted in the autumn at the base of some existing shrubs so they grow through the shrubs over the spring flowering in July
Clematis jackmanii
