Planting Step-by-Step Guides

How to plant single-flowering perennials?

If you want to create a colourful garden, start by looking for plants with the right growing conditions. These single-flowering Perennials will thrive in your garden: Phlox, Daisy, Lavender, Brunnera and Echinacea.

Step-by-step guide on how to plant single flowering perennials.

• Step 1: Set out the plant as required.
• Step 2: Dig a hole for the plant.
• Step 3: Immerse the plant's rootball thoroughly.
• Step 4: Remove the pot from the rootball.
• Step 5: Place the plant in the hole that you have dug.
• Step 6: Press down the soil around the plant.
• Step 7: Regularly water the new plant.

Plant perennials with different blooming times, to enjoy an extended flowering season. The most beautiful recurrently-flowering perennials are Milkweed, Japanese Anemone, Foxtail, Geranium, Begonia, Daylily and Iris.

Step-by-step planting perennials guide 

• Step 1: Set out the plant as required, leaving them enough room to grow.

• Step 2: Dig a hole for the plant.

• Step 3: Immerse the plant's rootball thoroughly.

• Step 4: Remove the pot from the rootball.

• Step 5: Place the plant in the hole that you have dug.

• Step 6: Press down the soil around the plant.

• Step 7: Regularly water the new plant.

Here's a beginner's guide to start growing roses in the garden, on the balcony, or on your patio. We offer container-grown roses and bare-root roses. We offer shrub roses, climbing roses, rambling roses, patio roses, ground cover roses and roses by colour. 

How to plant roses?

• Step 1: Choose the right rose for the spot, and get advice when you buy.

• Step 2: Position the rose and check the future result.

• Step 3: Dig a planting hole which is deep and wide enough

• Step 4: Carefully remove the pot from the rootball.

• Step 5: Place the rose in the planting hole.

• Step 6: Immediately water very thoroughly.

• Step 7: Carefully press down the soil around the rose.

• Step 8: Water the new rose regularly.

How to plant flowering plants in pots?

What do you need to plant flowering plants in pots? Ornamental pots, potting compost, clay granules, plants.

• Step 1: First, place a layer of clay granules in the pots; this makes them lighter than filling the entire pot with potting soil. This will also prevent the potting compost from being washed away with the water.

• Step 2: Then add a layer of potting compost.

• Step 3: Remove the plants from their pots one by one.

• Step 4: Plant them in the ornamental pot and fill the space between the rootballs with potting compost.

• Step 5: Water immediately, and thereafter water regularly.

• Step 6: The potting compost provides sufficient nutrients for around 6 weeks, after which you need to feed.

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Conifers bring structure to your garden and add year-round interest.

How to plant conifers?

• Step 1: Dig a planting hole with a circumference greater than the rootball.

• Step 2: Dig in plenty of compost to enrich the soil in the planting hole.

• Step 3: Place the conifer with wrapped rootball in the planting hole. If the conifer is potted, carefully remove it from the pot and place it in the planting hole.

• Step 4: Cut off the sacking.

• Step 5: Pull the sacking from under the rootball.

• Step 6: Fill in the plant hole with soil.

• Step 7: Carefully firm down the soil around the rootball.

• Step 8: Water well, and continue to do so if the weather remains dry.

Here are our top-5 popular climbers: Clematis, Wisteria, Honeysuckle, Hedera Ivy, and Climbing Hydrangea. 

How to plant climbers?

• Step 1: Dig a planting hole 20 to 25 cm from the trellis.

• Step 2: Dig in plenty of compost to enrich the soil in the planting hole.

• Step 3: Remove the climbing plant from the pot.

• Step 4: Place the climbing plant slanting next to the trellis.

• Step 5: Fill up the planting hole with soil so that the growth point is placed below the surface.

• Step 6: With a Clematis the base of the plant is protected from the sun by planting low plants in front of it.

• Step 7: Detach the tendrils from the cane and tie them to the trellis.

• Step 8: Water well, and continue to do so if the weather remains dry.

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