What to plant for instant spring colour

Spring is a great time of year for accessing the gaps in your borders and doing some instant colour planting. There’s usually a great choice of great value-for-money spring bulbs in pots, as well as what have become known as ‘spring bedding plants’ at garden centres. So go on, celebrate the arrival of spring by brightening up your borders, pots or windowboxes with some much-needed colour! Here are my 6 of the best spring bedding plant suggestions…

Spring pansy ‘Ultimo’ strain

Polyanthus ‘Calypso’

Wallflower ‘Winter Orchid’

Forget-me-not ‘Blue Ball’

Primrose – mixed hybrids

Bellis ‘Giant Red’