Colour Ideas For Summer Pots, Containers and Hanging Baskets.

Take A Look At Some Of The Summer Bedding Colour Combinations 

Pinks, blues and silver tones are one of the most popular colour choices

How To Make A Summer Hanging Basket

Here are some step by step photos of us making up a basket

 

There are different ways of potting up baskets and we don't always follow the same pattern but here is one Peter made up.

 You will need:

Summer Bedding Plants For Baskets, Borders And Containers

When it comes to our  bedding plants  it’s all about having a huge choice and it always has been in over 40 years of producing summer bedding here at Preston Bissett. Plants are prolifically emerging out of the tunnels every day and deliveries flooding in.

There Is Plenty Of Colour For Summer

There is lots of annual colour for pots and to fill those gaps!

Exotic Summer Dahlias

 

Sometimes you look at a flower and think how did nature with a bit of help from man make a flower so extravagant exotic.

Looking Particularly Good in the Summer Bedding

Not to be Missed this is Dahlia Goldalia Scarlet one of the many eye catching plants out in the summer bedding for containers.

Summer Hanging Baskets 2021 Prices

Either bring in your old hanging basket (empty) or have a new basket made up. Place orders in the shop.

Salvias Are Perfect For Summer Pots

Salvia Ember's Wish

A hot colour from Australia with glowing orange-red flowers make this a glorious plant. These are just about to perform now.

Fiery Coleus Foliage

Hotting up like the heatwave we have this gorgeous fiery coleus foliage. Coleus Henna and aptly name Coleus Campfire.

How To Plant And Care For Summer Bedding Plants

Why not grow some pretty summer containers

Bedding plants when looked after give you flower from May until November and it is for this reason they are worth a little investment.

There are three simple things we need to consider:

What To Plant In Summer Pots And Baskets

Here Are Some Of My Favourite Summer Bedding Plants

Summer Wouldn’t Be Summer Without Daisies
A white Marguerite always brings a smile. Argyranthemums. They range from compact doubles flowers to some lovely rich warm wine shades.

Good Trailing Plants To Fill Summer Baskets

Thunbergeia (Black Eyed Susan) Is Now Glorious In Orange

A vibrant orange annual to scramble up an obelisk or just up a few Cains as with sweet peas. It adds that essential bit of height. Perfect for a cottage garden display of bedding.

Dahlia The Hotest Plant This Summer

Dahlia Powder Lavender

 Once considered a little dated now the hotest plant on the market. Possibly thanks to Gardener's World and Monty's persistence every year with his brightly coloured dahlias in his celebrated Jewel Garden.

Flowers for Summer Choose Salvias

Salvia Amistad is simple brilliant for filling summer gaps in your border.Its substantial filling about a meter and it will flower profusely all summer. The flowers are a striking rich deep purple blue.

Summer Bedding Colour for Baskets, Containers and Borders for 2017

Here is a quick taster of some of the very first flowers to emerge this May reminding us there are always new lovely colours and varieties of bedding  to delight us in our summer baskets borders and containers each year.

Note we are open late until 7pm through May and June every day.
Workshops start this week

Calibrachoa trio white blue rose

Triple colours growing together and thriving in one pot of this trailing calibrachoa.

New Summer Bedding Varieties Are Available Every Year

Every year there are new plants more compact varieties, fascinating shades, better flowering habit and this year is no exception.

Here are a few pic from this morning of some of the new plants that have courteously flowered a little early so I could take a snap in the tunnels.

Making Summer Hanging Baskets

Hanging baskets, pretty summer pots bright colours, soft shades, whats new, old favourites. I am talking about those beautiful bedding plants we celebrate summer with every year.