Summer planting ideas to extend your garden's colour | Garden Inspiration | Gardening Australia
With careful planning and plant choice, you can extend the joyful colours of summer for much longer in your garden. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe It’s good to start with perennials - these are long-lived plants that often form clumps. In cooler climates, they die back over winter and regrow when the warmer weather returns. Many are at their peak in late summer and autumn; others flower in spring and can be cut back to produce another flush of colour in March and April. Perennials can also be used as fillers in the garden. Dead-heading plants such as roses also encourages more flowers. Planting seedlings is an economic way of planting extra colour - its seems harsh but plucking off a few mature flowers as you plant them out gives the new plant a chance to settle in and it will produce more flowers in the long run. Don’t forget herbs and vegies! Plants such as rainbow chard, mizuna and some lettuce will bring colour to a garden all year round. Featured plants: Marguerite daisy - Argyranthemum frutescens cv. Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea cv. Statice - Limonium cv. Geum - Geum cv. Thrift - Armeria cv. Carnation - Dianthus cv. Kangaroo Paw - Anigozanthos ‘Bush Dance’. Rose - Rosa cv. Marigold - Tagetes cv. Silverbeet - Beta vulgaris cv. Lettuce - Lactuca sativa cv. Mizuna - Brassica juncea cv. African Violet - Streptocarpus ionanthus cv. Always check species before planting: they may be environmental weeds in your area. ___________________________________________ Gardening Australia is an ABC TV program providing gardening know-how and inspiration. Presented by Australia's leading horticultural experts, Gardening Australia is a valuable resource to all gardeners through the television program, the magazine, books, DVDs and extensive online content. Watch more: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/gard... Facebook: / gardeningaustralia Instagram: / gardeningaustralia Web: http://www.abc.net.au/gardening ___________________________________________ This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel. Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC's Online Conditions of Use http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3).
