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Whether it’s in pots, window boxes or in the ground, it’s always beneficial to have a variety of flowering plants and its handy to know which will work well together to create an eye-catching display.

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00:00so today I'm just going to give you an update on how things are doing and show

00:22you some flowers that work well together so just show you here this is a giant

00:29hollyhock it's coming up and this is on a pot and of course quite a few weeks of

00:38sunshine there and then the rain and one has come back just as everything is

00:43coming on the brun and it's blowing everything all over the place you can see

00:47here we have red poppies pink these are oriental poppies which grown from seed

00:54over the winter some alison down here and some baby's breath up here and the

00:59poppies and the baby's breath go very well together and then up here we have some

01:05bunny grass which I'm drying out at the moment you can see the wee seeds on it

01:10already that was grown earlier in the year too and they go they all go very well

01:16together and underneath you have some pale pansies with a blue hunt to them and up

01:24here and the window boxes have pansies and petunias which mean which I grew from seed

01:32back in February as I sowed the seeds and these are a different variety so every

01:39flower is different on the same plant and this is a blueberry blush a raspberry

01:45blush and then a strawberry as well so there's three different types that all

01:50came up and you can see there the different combinations on them just with

01:56some of these pansies at the back of them

02:00they look quite well but not the trailing variety but I do have some trailing ones

02:05here that I'll switch out these were soon later and they've come on really well

02:11just we we've had quite a mild start but a warm start the

02:20the late spring early summer period much warmer than we'd normally have which is

02:25why everything has come on so fast it's the end of May here now and these are

02:32these need potted up

02:36these cosmos and then we have more poppies coming up around here I'm gonna have to

02:43stake them I think because they're blown all over the place Aquilegia has been

02:47flowering for the last few weeks it's important at this time of year just a

02:51deadhead so that they keep flowering you can see these seed pods forming don't want

02:57them yet but I will collect some of the seeds whenever the last flowers appear

03:02down here have a sweet pea first of those has opened and I'm with them they have

03:12some poor man's orchid and some willison and they're just growing up the post here

03:17those were planted back in February as well they're sown back in February and there are more

03:27poppies and there some by the door you can just see how well the baby's breath and

03:33this is a type of baby's breath that has a whiter flare rather than the old balls you

03:39would normally see and the poppies go together

03:42it's all about red and white colors of Derry City of course which works really well

03:51over here we have more of the petunias and some of the schizanthus the

04:01priman's orchid different colors of them you can see they're paler ones and some

04:07pinks and they have this little yellow throat on them just makes them stand out

04:12they're really pretty flower and they go well with the pansies and petunias as well

04:21here we have an iceland poppy nice champagne peach color more poppies not yet open there

04:31and here we have canterbury bells about to pop too that's some blue some white and there's

04:39i showed loads of them last year they're a biennial too so and here we have more sweet pea which hasn't

04:47come on the bloom yet more schizanthus and down here we've got some annual rudbeckia something's been

04:57eaten at it but they're quite healthy looking too not too fussed about that that's everything in the

05:03front at the moment

05:06out here by a happy accident one of the things that work really well together is the corn flower which is

05:12flowering early but earlier than normally would and the oxide daisies growing together so a nice

05:20combination with a blue and white there and then on over we have

05:32sweet william which is now starting to open along with aquilegia

05:37and they are a good pairing because they flower at the same time with most of these things it's

05:43it's important to know when things will flower some of the forget-me-nots there with sweet william

05:48in the background too and then all of these big spikes are canterbury bells which should open in

05:55the next few weeks you can see the flower heads now starting to elongate and we have one open which

06:01i'll show you in a moment up at the back there we have all the honesty which is now gone the seed but

06:11we have to wait for the seed pods they form folly before we can cut them back and use them for dried

06:17flowers we'll have a look at that in the next few weeks as well there's more of the aquilegia the

06:26columbine and down around here it's just all new plants that i planted small ones that were grown

06:33from seed as well later on and up here we have this giant lupus which is in full flower at the

06:41moment and they do keep ahead of deadhead and that and all along the back there there's mostly weeds

06:49actually but there's a lot of hollyhock and there's sweet william in there as well and

06:59there's a lot that needs weeded and here's the first of the canterbury bells

07:07big big flowers as you can see biennial um soon last year survived the winter ground on the ground

07:14and they can handle temperatures down to minus five

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