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What flowering plant can I buy to enjoy now?

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Toddlerbeast · 10/04/2022 17:30

I'm heading to the garden centre tomorrow to buy a small pretty flowering plant for a small planter I have. Like really small!

What can I buy that looks pretty now and will last a while, and grow back time after time please?

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chisanunian · 10/04/2022 17:33

Primula.

But if the planter you have is that small, you will need to make sure it doesn't dry out over the summer. Small pots can need watering several times a day in hot weather.

DomusAurea · 10/04/2022 17:34

I need more info :)

  1. what's the size of the planter

  2. do you want an indoor or outdoor plant?

  3. are you going to look after it or do you need a plant that will look after itself so to speak

  4. how much light you have in your house?

DomusAurea · 10/04/2022 17:35

Or you could get a cactus :) they have such a great personality. They are only prickly on the outside.

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Missmollypolly · 10/04/2022 17:36

Saxifrage - plant small with lots of delicate flowers

DomusAurea · 10/04/2022 18:26

If you like flowers how about a geum? They flower non stop from now to October (mine still had flowers in December) and come back. I think they are really beautiful.

www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-geums/

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/07/plant-of-week-geum

DomusAurea · 10/04/2022 18:27

'And where? Geums love a sunny spot and fertile, moist soil; they will do well in a container provided you keep up with watering.' (from the Guardian article above)

FleurDeLizz · 10/04/2022 18:28

Depending how small, erysimum. Smells great, bees love it and it’ll flower for most of spring and summer

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