can you buy plants online?

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Yes! Crocus is one of the best known sites but quite expensive. If you know what you want, you could try googling for other nurseries which sell online.

Yes my sister/mum use SUTTONS. She also goes through Quidco to get cashback.

Yes, I've bought mine through ebay and its always worked out well.

ok next question as I'm a novice
I want to fill a square bit of soil that had a greenhouse on it with flowers but have no idea where to start, any advice?

Did the greenhouse have a solid floor? Have you had to break up concrete etc? If so, first job is to get rid of all the rubble.

If the greenhouse had no floor and plants were growing straight into the soil, the soil could be quite impoverished by now. I would give it a good dig (double-dig, if you've got the time and energy) and add some compost, composted bark or well-rotted manure. Then you should be good to go.

What are you going to grow?

well I was thinking some easy to maintain flowers if there is such a thing!

Ok. The MN gardeners like a challenge. Tell us more:

How big is this square?

How close to the house is it?

Is it mainly sunny or mainly shady?

Do you want perennials or something you can change every year (ie annuals)?

What's important to you - low maintenance, colour, fragrance?

Woottens is very good and offer a design service, you pay £40 for a border design but they take this off the price of the plants if you buy from them.
www.woottensplants.co.uk/

Geraniums are very easy to grow, flower for a long time and most are happy in sun or shade.

ooh geraniums might be the way to go
not sure how big sqaure is
it is mostly in the shade from a shed next to it but is sometimes in the sun
it is on the furthest side of the garden from the house
tomorrow maybe I could post a piccie

Geraniums are fabulous, but for a mostly shady spot you'd do better with hardy geraniums than with pelargoniums (the summer bedding geranium).

Looking forward to the photo, as now spring is here my gardening obsession is running rampant. Have just been droning on waxing lyrical about plants for shade here.

Another good site is Plants for Shade, here is a link to their Geranium page
www.plantsforshade.co.uk/acatalog/Geranium.html

Plants for Shade! That's the site I was thinking of on the other thread!

or you could not bother digging in any manure and just sow a wildflower seed mix ?? Then plenty for picking / smelling / looking at come mid summer, will only cost pennies

I use crocus. Great choice and the plants are always in excellent condition when they arrive. Customer services are excellent too. They are a little pricier than some BUT there is always a discount code to be had if you look hard enough...

90833 - 20% off @ crocus

Hellebores are lovely perennials and fine in light shade, and they don't need much in the way of upkeep. They also flower in winter, so might be nice to have something like that along with your summer-flowring things like geraniums? I like the white ones, but they also come in purples, pinks, speckled ones and a sort of acid green.

I think most wildflowers prefer things a bit more sunny, no?