Best Flowers to Grow for Summer Planting: Brighten Your Garden All Season

There's something genuinely exciting about a garden coming into its own over summer. The longer days, the warmth, the buzz of insects, all create the perfect conditions for growing some truly spectacular flowers. Whether you've been gardening for decades or you've only just started digging around, picking the right plants makes all the difference. Here are some wonderful flowers worth considering for summer planting , each one bringing something a little different to the table. Sunflowers: The Classic Summer Flower Honestly, is there a more cheerful sight than a row of sunflowers catching the afternoon light? They're bold, they're easy, and they reward even the most casual gardener with impressive results. Bees and butterflies absolutely love them too, so you're doing the local wildlife a favour as well. Don't feel limited to the towering varieties you see on allotments, either. Compact types like Teddy Bear or Sunspot suit smaller spaces and pots brilliantl......

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A Practical Guide to Sowing Spring Seeds in Small Urban Spaces

Urban gardening has quietly taken hold among people who simply want a bit of green in their lives. It doesn't matter whether you've got a balcony the size of a postage stamp, a narrow strip of garden, or just a draughty windowsill - there's usually something you can do with the space you have. Sowing spring flowers is one of the nicest places to start. They're forgiving, they're cheerful, and watching something you planted from seed actually bloom never really gets old. This guide covers the basics of getting seeds in the ground (or compost, more likely) in a small urban space. Nothing too complicated - just the practical stuff that actually makes a difference. Picking the Right Spring Flowers for Where You Are Space, light, and containers - those are the three things worth thinking about before you buy anything. A lot of people assume you need sprawling plants to make a garden feel full, but that's not really true. Compact varieties can look just as good, some......

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Garden Tales

We love to garden - fact. Mr A and I refer to our garden as the farm. I find it very therapeutic and Mr A loves tasks and enjoys raking leaves, planting seeds and putting weeds into bags. We spend time in the garden everyday, just pottering about. With all the sun this week our sunflowers had really started to head towards the sun, they still have a long way to go but it's great to see them grow stronger everyday. Our Onions are also starting to pop through the soil with green shoots - we cannot wait to see how they turn out. Mr A with his rake to the ready Our sunflowers are really starting to grow One of our onion shoots Another thing we love to do in the garden lately is have a bite to eat and read a book, it's so relaxing to sit in the sun and read a story to the little man. Mr A loves stories - especially ones full of colourful animals and characters so when the lovely people at My Little Big Town asked us to review three new books they have just r......

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