A bedding plant is a short-lived annual flowering plant planted in beds and borders in late summer to provide colour in the garden. Bedding plants can be raised from seed, or purchased from nurseries and garden centres in spring and grown on indoors before planting out once the risk of frost has passed. Bedding plants are typically easy to grow, and they will often thrive when placed in the right conditions. Many of them will last all summer and will respond well to regular feeding with a high potash fertiliser.
There are a wide variety of bedding plants available and choosing the best ones for your scheme will depend on how long you want the display to last, how much maintenance you can give it and whether it is to be used as part of an overall landscape design. Many of the most popular summer bedding plants such as petunias, lobelia and begonias are easy to grow from seeds or plugs sown directly into cell trays or 9cm (3 1/2in) pots. Wherever possible try to buy plants that are propagated locally or from a reputable mail order supplier that has proven experience growing the type of bedding you need for your garden design.
Other great bedding plants include nicotiana, cosmos and geraniums. There are many varieties to choose from, with some hybrids offering a very good heat resistance making them ideal for hot dry sites. Fuchsias also perform very well in summer bedding schemes. Look for the low mounded cultivars such as ‘Pink Elephant’ or ‘Barbara Cartland’ with their salmon pink double flowers and tumbling habit.
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