Warm up your flower beds in November
These two flowers will keep your garden colourful for a long time
If it’s warm, rich colours you are after in November,then these two companions are perfect for you!
Marigolds are first up, offering their warm sunny colours for most of the year and outlasting many other annuals. Their colourful flowers come in shades of orange, yellow, red and bi-coloured, with many flower shapes and sizes to choose from.
Zinnia is your other hot companion and they make for great festive colour in a garden with their upright green foliage and kaleidoscope of warm and inviting colours.
Marigolds
The modern Marigold hybrids are very uniform in growth and stay compact, making them a superb choice. Whether you have a border or edging that needs creating, a container that needs filling, a vegetable patch that needs a natural pesticide or just a dry sunny flowerbed begging for some company, marigolds can fill that gap.
They also look very attractive when inter-planted with other bedding plants like salvias, purple basil or verbenas.
Zinnia
Zinnias are great companions for Marigolds as they also enjoy basking in full sun and are very drought and heat tolerant.
To promote a longer flowering period, deadhead spent blooms to encourage new ones to bud.
Zinnias are butterfly and bee magnets, bringing much needed life to spring gardens. They are perfect for containers or as a bold border for your garden beds.
Information supplied by the Bedding Plant Growers Association.
