Island Life Magazine Ltd April/May 2012 | Page 116

GARDENING

summer

A
to celebrate
with colour and enjoy your garden
By Mrs. Ursula Thompson, Thompson’s Garden Centre, Newchurch

As the days
lengthen it’s great
to get out in the
fresh air and
spend more time
in the garden.

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Now is the time to really get started
with summer bedding plants for the
front of borders, pots and baskets.
There is a wonderful range of
plants from geraniums and fuchsias,
osteospermum, marguerites and
begonias which flower throughout the
summer.
From April onwards we have an
extensive selection of young plants
and seedlings to grow on, also hanging
basket and vegetable plants. We will

have special colour selections to
celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee and the
Olympics.
Many gardeners will already know
that there is a real problem affecting
one of our favourite bedding plants,
busy lizzies (Impatiens Walleriana).
Last year many plants were lost to
Impatien downy mildew. Soil and spore
contamination could spread the disease
from year to year.
Throughout the nursery trade a