Half-hardy / seasonal bedding Flashcards
Nicotiana alata (jasmine tobacco)
Summer bedding / HHA
rosette-forming perennial (treated as annual) to a height of 1.5m, with large spoon-shaped dark green leaves at the base, becoming smaller higher up.
Throughout summer and into autumn, tubular greenish-yellow flowers with funnel-shaped mouths appear. These are strongly scented at night.
city/courtyard garden, flower border, cottage garden, wildlife garden
h 1.0 - 1.5m, s 0.1 - 0.5m
fertile, moist but well-drained soil in full sun or partial shade
Salvia splendens (scarlet sage)
Summer bedding / HHA
compact, upright perennial usually grown as an annual, with oval leaves and dense spikes of tubular scarlet flowers with large red bracts, over a long period in summer and autumn
Flower borders, patio/container plants, cottage/informal, city/courtyard garden
h 0.1 - 0.5m, s 0.1 - 0.5m
fertile, moist but well-drained, soil in full sun
Antirrhinum majus ‘Floral Carpet Mixed’ (snapdragon)
Summer bedding / HHA
very compact and bushy annuals to 20cm tall with erect racemes of two-lipped flowers in shades of yellow, pink, red and white
Cottage/informal garden, patio/container plant, flower border, garden edging
h 0.1 - 0.5 m, s 0.1 - 0.5m
Grow in a sunny position in well-drained soil
Zinnia elegans ‘Dreamland Red’
Summer bedding / HHA
compact annual to around 30cm tall with oval to lance-shaped leaves.
Fully double, flat-petalled, bright red flowers to 10cm across are borne from summer into autumn
City/courtyard garden, cottage/informal garden, flower border, cut flowers
h 0.1-0.5m, s 0.1 - 0.5m
fertile, well drained soil in full sun
Tagetes patula ‘Red Knight’
French marigold
Summer bedding / HHA
bushy annual to around 20cm tall with aromatic, divided foliage.
Single flowerheads comprising deep mahogany-red petals edged with yellow surrounding a central yellow disk are borne from late spring into autumn
flower borders, garden edging, city/courtyard, cottage/informal, containers
h 0.1 - 0.5m, s 0.1 - 0.5m
moderately fertile, well-drained soil in full sun.
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Cosmix White’
Summer bedding / HHA
half-hardy annual, to 60cm tall, with finely-divided foliage
large, white flowers, 8-10cm in diameter, borne on branching stems from summer into autumn
Suited to annual or cut-flower borders or as a summer infill
h 0.5 - 1.0m, s 0.1 - 0.5m
moist, but well-drained soil in full sun.
Describe a half-hardy annual
Half-hardy annuals are very sensitive to the cold, so need to be sown indoors in spring and planted outside in early summer when no more frosts are forecast.
They’ll keep going until the first autumn frosts.
Ricinus communis (castor oil plant)
Summer bedding
An erect, branching shrub to 1.5m when grown as an annual, with very deeply 5- to 12-lobed, glossy, green, red or bronze leaves to 30cm long, held on red stems.
Insignificant yellow flowers are produced in summer; these are followed by bright red, spherical, spiky seed capsules
Bedding, sub-tropical garden, flower borders, patio/containers
h 1.5 - 2.5m, s 0.5 - 1.0m
fertile, humus-rich, well-drained soil in full sun.
Amaranthus caudatus
love-lies-bleeding
summer bedding / HHA
bushy, erect annual or biennial, with large ovate leaves and drooping, crimson tassel-like racemes of tiny flowers in summer and autumn
Cut flowers, prairie planting, flower borders, wildlife garden, cottage/informal garden
h 1.0 - 1.5m, s 0.5 - 1.0m
moist, fertile, humus-rich soil in full sun, in a sheltered site.
Gazania ‘Talent’
summer bedding /HHA
half-hardy annuals to 25cm in height, of spreading habit, with narrow grey-felted leaves
solitary flowerheads 8cm across in shades of yellow, orange, pink and brownish-red
Patio/container plants, garden edging, flower border
h 0.1 - 0.5m, s 0.1 - 0.5m
moderately fertile, well-drained soil in full sun
Petunia x hybrida ‘Storm Lavender’
Summer bedding / HHA
bushy annual to 30cm, with trumpet-shaped, single, lavender-purple flowers to 7cm diameter, the throat yellow
Erysimum Winter Orchid
Spring bedding
evergreen, upright, bushy perennial to 30cm tall with narrow, dark green leaves.
Sweetly scented orange flowers that turn purple with age are borne from spring into early summer on upright stems
Myosotis sylvatica
forget-me-not
Spring bedding
hairy perennial. It flowers between mid-spring and mid-summer, bearing small, bright blue, 5-lobed flowers with white or yellow centres.
Viola x wittrockiana
pansy
Spring bedding
Hyacinthus orientalis ‘Delft Blue’
Spring bedding
‘Delft Blue’ is a bulbous perennial to 30cm in height, with glossy green leaves and shapely spike-like racemes of fragrant, soft mid-blue flowers
