2016 Autumn planting for 2017 Spring scent and colour.

September (for me) is the time to plant for Spring next year. This year I'm planning my planting for my small front garden.

Bulbs I'll be planting include daffodils, honey bells and I need to get some grape hyacinths plus some alliums kindly given to me the other week from someone in our gardening club.

Hoping to fill gaps with some wallflowers I've grown from seed (but waiting for advice in another thread about that) and I'm also tempted to shake the last seeds of some Sweet William spent heads in that area and see what happens (if anything).

What are your Autumn planting plans for Spring scent and colour?

 

I've never grown wallflower before but the last year they have grown on me, especially tge orange and bright red ones, we're they easy from seed?

As you asked me earlier, no plans yet as such but getting the thinking cap on for combinations

New bulbs to try are some fritillaria; uva vulpis and imperiallis. I bought the meleagris year before last but they didn't show up this year, have more on order too.

Also got chinodoxa and Brodiea which I haven't tried before..

 

Waiting for the Peter Nyssen bulb order to arrive as we speak
Lots of tulips, hyacinths (both keep coming back) chionodoxa and lilies. I'm hopeless at getting organised for growing biennials but luckily a few wallflowers self-sow every year.
Not Spring but summer flowering.....Acidanthera murielae (AKA Gladiolus callianthus or murielae)
The most incredible perfume! If they flower too late in UK, it would be worth having a few in a pot near a seat.

 

Planted up a good few daffodils today. Then, as a "marker" I planted some wallflowers (which needed thinning out) in the same area so I don't have a grey cell meandering moment and forget where the daffs are

 

Most difficult my lovely and needs an "expert" touch

I opened the packet (without a safety net), took them down the garden path (careful! Didn't want to trip ), located a spot with nowt in it and then .... (steady now!) ... SPRINKLED!!! With careless abandon!! (So very devil-may-care! ).


They were given strict instructions: Live or Die! PAH!!

The belters thrived So, now they have been "thinned" (they pull up dead easy) and the "thinnings" have now been replanted and all the tops have been pinched out to make for a bushier plant

Like Sweet Williams (had great success with those this Spring from last Autumn sowings) they are biennials: sow one year to flower the next I've sown this year and hope to reap the rewards come Spring

Easy peasy lemon squeezy

 

Awesome, love "chuck and grow" seeds! Chucked 2 boxes and about 12 packets of seed about today... I've always thought biennial stuff was a nightmare to start off but I think the key is sowing autumn? Neighbour tried chucking sweet williams about last year but nothing came but we're having great success with self sowing antirrhinums! They're everywhere in her garden so pinched a load of seed off her the other day

 

I sort of see your "reverse recycling" adventure there? But, trust me, boxes and packets do NOT regrow

 

Advice neighbour to try the seed

 

No but it'll cover for winter! (hopefully) I had a wildflower thing in the front 3 years ago before I grassed it.. nothing came back..hence the grass.. I've since learned. I think.

 

Is it still ok to plant tulip bulbs? I haven't bought any but I'm thinking it's ok to plant tulips now but too late for everything else?

 

Hi Fern,
Yeah you're fine planting Tulips right through to mid December. The later they're planted the less chance there is of them getting virus or disease.

The only bulbs that need a really early planting are Narcissi /Daffodils as these start rooting during August, although bear in mind that next years flowers are already formed so you should still have a fairly decent show next Spring if you're quick.
You should be ok with Hyacinths as well.
Also, Dutch Iris can be planted at intervals so you get flowers over a longer period rather than the standard last fortnight of May. That's why they're the most universally grown cutting flower, because they can be grown all year round with care.

 

Thanks @Anthony Rogers ...I'd better get cracking then!

 

My plans have gone awry again, as they usually do
I was going to sow some Wallflower seeds and Bellis too, but never got around to it.
My Sweet Pea seedlings have gone very lanky ...
I have been trying to get Siberian Wallflower seeds but you never see them these days. They were a favourite flower of my dad.

I also have some bulbs still to plant

I did manage to get some Erythronium bulbs on line, and also planted them, so at least that's something

Good luck with your planting and sowing @"M" I look forward to seeing some photos next year

 

I'm still waiting for my Erythroniums :(

 

Hi Michael,

Chiltern Seeds ( www.chilternseeds.co.uk ) sell Siberian Wallflower seeds ( Erysimum x Allionii ).