Summer bedding plants such as petunias and geraniums (Pelargoniums) are frost-tender perennials which are treated as annuals; others are hardy annuals which can be sown directly outside.
Best Summer Bedding Plants
Begonia
Begonia do not like frost, best to plant them under other shrubs to protect them. If planting in the pot, then can be brought close or into the house during winter seasons.
Geranium
Geraniums ( make popular bedding plants in the garden, they’re also commonly grown indoors or outside in hanging baskets.
Sweet peas
Sweet peas bedding plants are fantastic in cottage gardens as well as other informal garden styles. Can be planted in a containers where it spills over the sides.
Petunia
Petunias are one of the most popular summer bedding plants, flowering throughout summer until the first severe frosts of autumn. Their mass of flowers bring lots of great colour to gardens.
Cosmos
Cosmos plug plants add great height and colour to your garden all throughout the summer.
Lobelia
The lobelia plant (Lobelia spp.) is an attractive annual (some can be biennial) herb with many varieties.
Antirrhinum
Antirrhinum is commonly known as dragon flowers, snapdragons and dog flower because of the flowers’ fancied resemblance to the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed. They are native to rocky areas of Europe, the United States, Canada, and North Africa.
Busy Lizzie
Impatiens walleriana (syn. Impatiens sultanii), also known as busy Lizzie (British Isles), balsam, sultana, or simply impatiens, is a species of the genus Impatiens, native to eastern Africa from Kenya to Mozambique. It is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant growing to 15–60 cm (6–24 in) tall, with broad lanceolate leaves 3–12 cm long and 2–5 cm broad
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