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Is it too late to plant colourful flowers?

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cheekygeeky · 30/04/2014 07:37

Our new garden is beautiful and big and some really bright tulip like flowers have grown. I'd love to plant more as everything else is green. Is it too late to plant anything now? Can you suggest any seeds I can

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cheekygeeky · 30/04/2014 07:37

Plant into the ground now which might flower later this year or next spring. As you can tell I'm a com

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cheekygeeky · 30/04/2014 07:39

Complete idiot for posting like this! Sorry

I'm a complete novice in the garden but have just realised how much nice flowers and colours improve my mood. I've thrown some coriander seeds in a big planter and they've already started sprouting, I'm delighted. Thanks and apologies for the pathetic early posting.

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sandgrown · 30/04/2014 07:41

You will soon be able to get lots of bedding plants which will give instant colour. Ask at a local nursery. There are some seeds that may flower later in the year.

ender · 30/04/2014 09:22

Not to late for cosmos, beautiful flowers, lots of colours. Taller ones fit in well between shrubs. Seeds grow quickly indoors or you can direct sow once frost risk is over. We need to fill gaps in new garden and have just sown loads of these also the taller white cosmos purity.

Gooner123 · 30/04/2014 09:39

There's plenty of herbaceous perennials that you can plant now & will flower this yr.Their much better value than bedding,& can be split to make more free plants in a couple of yrs.

cheekygeeky · 30/04/2014 09:49

Thanks everyone. If I buy small plants already in tubs can I stick them in the soul or should I add new soil to the garden?

Lovely ideas. Thanks again. Love the cosmos.

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funnyperson · 30/04/2014 22:19

Always dig a generous hole and add in a bit of compost when you plant them out.

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