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    • Bedding and Annuals >
      • Hanging Baskets
    • Perennials
    • Shrubs >
      • Conifers
    • Bulbs
    • Trees
    • Hedging
    • Fruit & Veg
    • Roses >
      • Rose pruning
    • Shade plants >
      • Ferns
    • Herbs
    • Lavenders
    • Alpines
    • Grasses
    • Climbers >
      • Clematis pruning
  • Flourish
    • Flourish flashback
    • Flourish terms conditions
  • About
    • Gallery
    • Trade services
    • Garden services
    • Nursery production
    • Environment
    • History
  • Advice
    • Garden tips
    • Planting Themes
    • Videos
    • Slug proof
    • Rabbit proof
    • Deer proof
    • Plants for shade
    • North-facing walls
    • Dry & sandy soil
    • Coastal sites
    • Exposed sites
    • Clay soil
    • Damp soil
    • Plants for slopes
    • Plants for pots
    • Evergreen perennials
    • Long flowering perennials
    • Plants for ground cover
    • Flowers for cutting
    • Plants for butterflies
    • Plants for birds
    • Plants for predatory insects
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The Garden: The Flower Beds

Trial & showcase: Dwarf Narcissus bed

16/4/2024

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We sell a wide assortment of miniature daffodils at Katie's Garden, both as loose bulbs in the autumn, and as potted plants in the springtime.

With this bed we wanted to showcase the range while also using it to compare and contrast flowering times, heights and fragrance.

We planted 10 bulbs each of 14 different varieties on 29th September 2023.


2024 proved to be a very mild winter and spring, so flowering in general was earlier than usual!

We recorded the date the first bloom opened up; the approximate height; whether the flowers were fragrant; and then when we considered flowering to be over, which was when the plant didn't look attractive even from a distance. The numbers in the left column are the order they came into bloom.

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Trial: The Flourish bed

8/4/2024

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Planted 8th April 2024

Erysimum Bowles Me Away
Lupin Legendary Blue Shades
Verbena Polaris Sky Blue
Penstemon Polaris Rose
Verbena Bonnie Blue
Digitalis Panther
Leucanthemum Ooh La LaCreme

Members of our Flourish rewards club earn points for free plants. Alongside old favourites, the Flourish range often includes new varieties, which members trial for us.
 
In this bed we are trying out some of this season’s new-to-us plants.
 
Sign up to the club for free at the till or at www.katiesgarden.co.uk/flourish

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    About the garden

    The flower beds at Katie's Garden change at least once a year.  Some are showcases of our favourite plants, some are for us to trial new varieties, and some are for showing off plants with purposes.

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