The Best Plants and Flowers For Small Gardens in the UK
City Gardens: What to Plant Now For Your Small Space to Flourish
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To me, the best outdoor spaces are ones that serve multiple purposes. For gardens that are tight on size, growing cut-and-come-again varieties like dahlias in containers is the perfect solution to bringing bright flowers that keep on giving to your plot, and they can be enjoyed in a vase afterwards, too. Now is the ideal time to pot your dahlia tubers up inside, starting them off in a sunny spot like a windowsill or a small greenhouse before relocating them into tin planters in a couple of months. Simply fill a three-litre pot halfway with multipurpose compost and place your tuber neatly on top. Cover over lightly — dahlias don't like to be planted too deep — and give a gentle watering. Then, simply sit back and wait to see your first shoots appear before repotting outdoors around June time.