Bedding plants usually only last one year, but their great advantage is the profusion of flowers they produce over an extended period. 

This makes them ideal for colourful garden displays, pots, tubs, troughs, and baskets.

They can also be used to liven up herbaceous borders and rockeries, giving them a lift of colour when perennials are out of flower.

Bedding plants are also inexpensive, e.g. Lobelia, F1 hybrid French Marigolds or Snapdragons (Antirrhinums) only cost:  

£1.06 for a ten plant pack. 

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  FROST HARDY BEDDING.

  PACK BEDDING (e.g. Marigolds, Lobelia etc in multiple plant packs).

  POT BEDDING (e.g. Cascading Petunias, Fuchsia, Geraniums, etc. in single plant packs).

  BIENNIAL BEDDING.

  WINTER BEDDING.

 VEGETABLE BEDDING.

General bedding plant information and tips.

  The more flowers they produce the more chances they have to replicate themselves; these plants really want to flower.

  This is why it is so important to deadhead your bedding plants regularly. By removing the dead flowers along with developing seedpods you stimulate the plants into producing even more flowers.

  Make sure that pots and containers have adequate drainage holes and that the compost is open enough to prevent waterlogging.

  Watering: although over-watering can be fatal, remember that as plants grow they need more water per day and still more on hot, sunny days.

  Many bedding plants originate in parts of the world where there are two main seasons, dry and wet. If they are kept short of water they will simply shut down. Given adequate water, deadheading, and an occasional liquid feed, they will perform right up to the autumn frosts.

  When going on holiday make sure that the person left in charge of watering understands how much and how often to water.

  Feeding: regular applications of liquid fertiliser usually gives the best results, but don't increase the dilution rate given on the container, you could damage your plants.

  Always use a high potash fertiliser. This will encourage your plants to flower rather than make too much leaf.

  Plants such as cornflowers or nasturtiums don't need much feed; they are naturally poor-land plants. Overfeeding may make these plants oversize or carry too much foliage rather than flowers. If this seems to be happening, stop feeding.

  Planting wire baskets: if you are having difficulty getting plants in through the wires, gently roll up the top of the plant in a piece of paper, poke through the wires from the inside and allow the paper to fall away. The top springs back out and you have not damaged the roots.