PLANT NOW, ENJOY LATER

For a garden full of beautiful blooms with minimum work, choose fuss-free plants now that require no (or almost no) feeding, watering or pruning. Here’s a list of plants that are hardy enough to sow now – and as long as there’s plenty of rain and sun throughout the spring, they should flower in abundance by summer.

★ Hardy geraniums

★ Verbascum ‘Clementine’

★ Globe thistles

★ Clematis ‘Princess Kate’

★ Poppy ‘Ladybird’

★ Lupins

★ False fennel

★ Acanthus

★ Japanese anemones