Plants in pots to last?

[MarieClairedelune]

We are putting the house on the market in a week and are looking for plants in pots that will flower for the next three months. Rhododendrons won’t last long will they? I want to buy things ready potted. Also ideas for hanging baskets?

Its spring stuff now so i think you will struggle to get something which will flower for the next 3 months. There is also something called the june gap where there is not much in flower because the spring stuff is finshing and the summer stuff hasnt started yet. I would go for a a couple of large preplanted spring pots withe a mix of bulbs for now and then swap them for new pre planted pots as the flowers finish.

I'd go to the garden centre and buy some things flowering now for the photos.

Winter pansies last for 6 months or mote and are relatively cheap

Good idea

You can get heucheras in various beautiful coloured foliages which give a lot of colour in the leaves, and look good planted in pots. The flowers are nondescript, but the leaves are the star.

I'd plant some colourful shrubs in the pots if they're big enough, tesco are really cheap and good, they have red cordyline at the moment. Campanula last well in baskets with some trailing ivy.

Most supermarkets are helpful. A shopping centre perhaps.

Cordylines with ivy trailing over the side and primroses dotted around looks lovely.

Wallflowers are in the shops now and later on in April, salvias. Both of these will flower for a long time. You can sow linaria seed Fairy Bouquet (or another) around the gaps and can flower for months on end too. If you have poor soil/compost, you can sow nasturtiums too which will spill over the edges with the abundant foliage as well as some bright flowers.

My lavender plants from last year have already got flower beds on them. I had them in pots with some ivy and rosemary.

I have a beautiful young Cercis tree (it is currently a twig) that should come into leaf soon.