A GARDENING whizz has revealed exactly what you need to plant now to be the first house on the street to be in bloom next spring.
Louise’s envious garden is jam-packed with gorgeous flowers and lots of fruit and vegetable as she’s made a self-sustaining garden and now she’s sharing her tips.
She revealed on TikTok: “The advantages of planting these right now is that they have the whole of winter to establish and get big enough so that you can plant them out as soon as the weather is warm enough in the spring.
“That means you’ll be one of the first to get flowers. If you did wait until spring, it’s still fine, but you won’t get your flowers until later on.
“I made this mistake last year., I was really jealous of everyone who was showing off all their beautiful flowers, which they’d grown over winter and had the first flowers of the season.
“I was just there stuck with the little seedlings I’d only just planted.”
She described Pansies as the best ‘filler’ plant in the garden thanks to them coming in multiple colours and having large flowers.
The first step was to multi-sow these seeds into trays of compost and make sure you label them.
You then want to add them to a propagator and put the lid on.
The gardening whizz added: “When the seedlings appear, you can very carefully prick them out.
“Then you plant each of those pricked out seedlings into module trays like this. They’re so hardy, I can leave them outside all winter and they won’t have to take up space in my greenhouse.”
Not only that but pansies are edible so perfect for adding to food as a decoration.
These wild flowers are super easy to grow and are actually part of the carrot family.
You want to use the same technique as with pansies – adding them to multi-sow trays until seedlings appear and then transferred to module trays to continue growing.
These are often used for bouquets as filler flowers so will be great if you love making your own.
If you don’t have a propagator, Louise revealed you can use cling film instead to act like a greenhouse.
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These white flowers are super easy to grow and are still blooming for the gardening whizz in her garden.
Use the same technique to grow these flowers which can also be used for bouquets as well as add some pretty blooms to your garden.
These beautiful bell like flowers will bring in some much needed colour in early spring time and make your garden stand out.
Again use a multi-sow tray and propagator before transferring to a module tray.
Louise adds: “Foxgloves are essential for a cottage garden and they look great in a bouquet too.”
“You’re probably thinking, that’s a vegetable, not a flower,” Louise admitted.
“At Chelsea Flower Show I saw so many exhibitors growing this as an ornamental plant.
“It will grow really happily through the winter and bring you that extra pop of colour that you can’t get from anywhere else.”
Use the same technique to grow it and once you’re done looking at the gorgeous greenery add it to your next roast dinner.
