subject: Is Your Garden A Fragrant Haven? [print this page] Is Your Garden A Fragrant Haven? Is Your Garden A Fragrant Haven?
In the day bright colours such as reds, oranges, yellow, and blues can add depth to a garden, but during the evening if you want to benefit from the visual aspect of your garden choose colours such as white or light coloured blooms that glow in the moon light.
The fragrance of sweet smelling flowers becomes more noticeable in the evening, some low growing perennial plants will reward you with fragrant flowers for years, and what better for fragrance than lavender plants, once established, will bloom profusely through the summer and will fill the night with the sweetest scent.
The ancient Greeks called the lavender herb nardus' after the Syrian city of Naarda, and was also commonly called nard', and is widely grown in gardens, the flower spikes are used for dried flower arrangements, and the fragrant, pale purple flowers and flower buds are used in potpourris, also dried and sealed in pouches, then placed among stored items of clothing to give a fresh fragrance and deter moths.
The stunning variety of English lavender plants is ideal for borders, hedges and make wonderful container plants, garden shrubs are the mainstay of most gardens, either evergreen or flowering shrubs make a wonderful show in any garden, and if planned properly choosing the right mixture of garden plants you will get a profusion of colour by day and plants that glow in the night.
Blooming Direct is a nursery second to none, located in the Parish of St. Saviour on the beautiful floral island of Jersey, have every plant imaginable, and to see exactly what is on offer you can log onto their website and check it out.
A huge range of favourite bedding plants, supplied in plug plant format ready to plant out, and are great as hanging baskets plants, containers and patio pots. Container plants can be mixed, thus giving you a vibrant display throughout the summer and autumn, and definitely can transform any dull corner on your patio, these plants are also supplied as jumbo plug plants and measure approximately 4cm diameter around the rootball and are 8 to 10cm in height.
Blooming Direct have a wide variety of every plant, garden bulbs, garden seeds, you will need to make your garden stand out, with colour and beauty, not to mention the wonderful aroma. Everything you purchase from this top of the range nursery will be perfect, their plug plants are grown from seed on their very own nursery on the island of Jersey, picked at their optimum time and sent direct to your door.
New to the nursery in 2009 was the introduction of their vegetable plant range, create your own kitchen garden and know exactly where your food has come from.
Delivery from Blooming Direct is made via Royal Mail, sent first class post, or in the case of furniture, by a courier service. Your plants will arrive in tip top condition, simply because care in taken in the packaging, all plants are carefully packed in a blister pack and then placed in a strong cardboard box for posting to you.
Make your garden beautiful by day or night, choose the right plants and colours, Blooming Direct's gardening advice through their gardening blog will also give the customer some great top tips. All in all you will not be sorry to do business with this garden centre, perfect in every way.
For further information visit: www.bloomingdirect.com
