Creating some winter and spring colour in your garden

Autumn is the best time to plan and create some colour and interest in your garden for the winter and spring months. A few of the gardening projects you can undertake in the autumn are

Winter and spring pots and containers
One of the most rewarding and cost-effective ways to produce winter and spring colour in your garden is to plant some winter pots and containers Click Here

Spring bulbs planted in the autumn
Spring bulbs are a reliable and easy way to get your gardening year of to a flying start start in late Janauray with crocus bulbs followed by other spring bulbs Click Here

Winter flowering shrubs to be planted in the autumn
Winter flowering shrubs can produce interest and colour in your garden over the winter by planting resonable size plants in the autumn a few suggestions are

Skimmia rubella – great berries all winter long
Helleborus – dependable winter flowers
Sweet box, or Sarcococca confusa – fantastic for scent
Camellia – providing flower in early spring in shady areas
Daphne odora’Aureomarginata’ – attractive evergreen with highly scented flowers.
Lonicera fragrantissima – more of a shrub than a honeysuckle