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The Country Garden Year

To help you plan ahead we’ve created four style references for each of the main flowering seasons as well as specialist themes for winter.  Annuals in this year’s must have colours enable you to stand out from your competitors.

All flowering times subject to seasonal conditions.

Spring March – April references a country orchard around a cottage garden – the hedges and trees full of pure white blossom with wild flowers in the meadow grass below; emerging foliage and early flowering shrubs providing lots of spikes and arching stems; and potting shed bulbs in round pots suitable as table centres or gifts.

Colours – blue, pale pink, cream, white, clear and light yellow, purple, fresh greens

Garden flowers – (crocus), daffodils, narcissi, grape hyacinth,

Foliage and filler – forsythia, hawthorn, hazel, willow, alder, flowering currant, blackthorn, kerria, fruit blossom, periwinkle, dogwood, (grey poplar), (balsam poplar), oak, ash

Wild flowers – primroses, (cowslips), violets, celandines, snakes head fritillaries, (lily of the valley), (wood anenomes)

Sales points this season: St David’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, Mother’s Day, Easter, St George’s Day

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Late spring/early summer May – June references the classic herbaceous border and rose garden of an English country house

Colours – blue, pink, cream, white, yellow, purple, fresh greens

Garden flowers – narcissi, sweet william, (roses), sweet peas, (peonies)

Foliage and filler – hawthorn, flowering currant, blackthorn, kerria, periwinkle, dogwood, (grey poplar), (balsam poplar), oak, ash

Wild flowers – primroses, (cowslips), violets, celandines, snakes head fritillaries, (lily of the valley), (bluebells)

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High Summer July – August references strong colours purples yellows but also light yellows and whites

Colours – white, pink, blue, yellow, purple, lime-green,

Garden flowers – cosmos, rudbeckia, scabious

Foliage and filler – solidago, eupatorium, meadowsweet, common reed, oak

Wild flowers –

Other sales points this season:

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Autumn September – October references a country harvest with rich golden dark hues and hedges full of berries

Colours – white, pale yellow, golden yellow, dark purple, dark brown, lime green, purpley-pink, russet red,

Garden flowers – cosmos, sunflowers, scabious

Foliage and filler – common reed, meadowsweet seedpods, oak stems with acorns, hawthorn stems with berries, blackthorn, eupatorium, solidago, cotoneaster with berries, spiraea, mint, snowberry foliage, wild rose hips, dogwood with berries, ivy flowers

Wild flowers – bulrush

Sales points this season: Halloween

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Winter Flowers and Winter Weddings