Winter Planting - Don't forget your containers!
After the summer annuals are over, plant up your pots with bulbs and brightly coloured perennials like our thymes, for a winter and spring spectacular!
The coloured thymes such as Silver Posie, Doone Valley, Archers Gold and lemon variegated look great in pots.
Part fill your container with compost and put in your bulb selection - try dwarf daffodils like 'Tete a Tete' or the smaller species tulips and of course crocuses - check the depth of planting on the bulb pack.
Fill the container to the top with compost and add your herb selection, the gold and silver thymes will become even more brightly coloured as it gets colder. Add a couple of flowering pansy plants, we like the small flowered varieties best. This will give you extra flowers throughout the milder parts of the winter and on into spring.
In larger containers try adding a larger specimen herb to the thymes - Prostrate Rosemary and Blue Lagoon Rosemary look lovely in early spring with their colourful blue flowers, and the popular Cotton lavender 'Lemon Fizz' is now ready for sale making a bright gold splash of colour in your containers.
Whilst these herbs are hardy and can easily withstand any cold weather, they do dislike wet feet. So don't stand them in saucers which can trap the rain and make sure the pots are raised up out of any puddles.
Position them in a sunny spot where you can appreciate them from the house.
Remember: Both the herbs and the bulbs can be replanted in your garden after their display is over.