Green-thumbed shoppers excited to see flowers blooming in their gardens this year can currently pick up this assortment of bedding flowers for 58p each
If you’re looking for a quick-growing and vibrant flower to add to your garden borders or lawns, ensuring a colourful display through the spring and summer months, look no further.
Over at Crocus, green-thumbed novices and masters can find this Lobelia Bedding Mix, which promises to bloom between May and October, ensuring your garden is full of bright colours from spring to autumn. Plus, this bundle won’t break the bank as it includes 20 free seedlings, on top of the 40 already included.
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Though each flower is quite small alone, these vibrant blooms appear in such high numbers, they promise to put on a great display. Lobelia ‘Bedding Mixed’ are ‘upright’ lobelias, ensuring they remain relatively compact and are perfect for creating low-growing colour in the bedding scheme.
Perfect for adding oomph to window boxes, hanging baskets and pots around your property, these blooms grow to about a quarter of a meter high (25cm) and come with 60 seedlings in this bundle, which retails for £34.99 – working out at 58p per seedling.
It’s recommended to pot up and grow on under glass until the risk of frost has passed, then plant the flowers outside in a well-prepared bed. Pinching out the growing tips will encourage them to become bushier, and it’s suggested you feed these blooms with a high-potash fertiliser at regular intervals throughout the summer.
One buyer who bought this bundle beams: “This was the second year that I have ordered the lobelia bedding. The disadvantage is that they arrive as small plug plants and have to be potted on and overwintered in a cold frame or greenhouse. However, the plants are very healthy, and all survived the “beast from the east” in my cold frame. In the spring, the plants grew quickly and flowered continuously from May through to around November. They looked absolutely stunning and received many compliments. I generally prefer to buy perennials but make an exception for these lobelia because they are so colourful, long-lasting and such good value.”
Another 5-star reviewer raves: “The Lobelia set off the other plants in window boxes beautifully and lasted well past the first frost.”
And further praise comes from this shopper who shares: “The plants lasted well into autumn and made a colourful display.”
Elsewhere, you can find this Lobelia Laura Mix from £9.99 at J Parker, this Lobelia ‘Cascade Improved Mixed’ from £7.99 at Suttons or this Alpine Plants Mega Mix Collection – Pack of SIX different Plants for £9.99, down from £14.99, at Gardening Express.
