Summer colour
Tonight's programme is all about adding late summer colour to your garden and in preparation I thought I'd list some top summer colour plants that will keep your garden looking beautiful throughout the season:
Helenium 'Waltraut' Sneezewort
Eryngium × zabelii 'Jos Eijking' Sea Holly
Helenium 'Goldfuchs' Sneezewort
Echinacea 'Pixie Meadowbrite' Coneflower
Salvia guaranitica 'Blue Enigma'
Eryngium bourgatii
Argyranthemum gracile 'Chelsea Girl' Marguerite
Kniphofia 'Tawny King'
Monarda 'Gardenview Scarlet' '
Salvia × sylvestris 'Mainacht' Wood sage
Inula magnifica
Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fascination'
Anemone hupehensis var. japonica 'Pamina'
Also on tonight's show Toby will be visiting the RHS Gardens in Harlow Carr to learn more about late flowering summer perennials. Alys will be providing more useful gardening tips as she demonstrates the simple steps involved in making an edible window box. Joe will be planting colourful borders at the garden he's been working on in Birmingham and Carol will be visiting Forster Park Primary School to see how their vegetables are progressing.
Are your gardens bursting with summer colour? Why not use our Flickr group to share the summer colour in your gardens.
That's all for now, enjoy your gardening weekend.
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Friday's episode was brilliant. Toby's visit to Harlow Carr was really interesting, it is so beautiful there. I think I shall be planning a visit up there very soon.
Carol's return to the school was great and I loved that dear little boy who was so enthusiastic and had made his own greenhouse! Perhaps you could bear him in mind for a future GW presenter!
A great show with something for everyone.
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The item about Heleniums was interesting but a bit misleading. As National Collection Holder I'd like to set the record straight before people start thinking that heleniums are difficult to keep through winter
Firstly some heleniums will have new shoots showing and some won't particularly if you buy plants from garden centres which are likely to have been grown from cuttings. Chopping off the flowers will only encourse branching and the production of more flower.
The best way to encourage new shoots is to chop the plants back almost to the base. I did the experiment Toby is trying some years ago and plants cut back hard at this time of year resprout and even come into flower by the end of September albeit at a lower height. Planting heleniums more deeply may encourage shooting depending on the variety and which species are in its make up (too complex to explain here). Having lots of new rosettes is great but useless unless you keep the plants moist. For Toby's experiment to be valid he will need to ensure each plant receives the same amount of water, because in my experience the single most important factor in getting plants through winter is ample water at this time of year and again from mid February onwards when the plants start to grow new roots. You can find out more about growing heleniums on my website www.specialperennials.com/helenium.htm
Looking forward to finding out how the experiment goes but please please remember that heleniums are easy provided you ensure they don't dry out completely.
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Please would the team support 'the growing garden' on face book, soon to be a web site. It is a charity site for people with Parkinson's disease and was inspired by Alison, a keen gardener. We are asking supporters to upload a flower to make the garden 'grow'.... thank you Colleen Henderson-Heywood Founder & Parkinson's Patient. Please support the Young Parkinson's Network
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