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GARDENING TIPS
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GARDENING TIPS
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The Pride of Sudbury gardening competition is now open to entries - get yours in by clicking here - and we at Bridge Farm Plants are delighted to share some of our expertise to help you along! We share which hanging basket plants are perfect for pollinators; which plants are best for container growing (and how to look after them); how to reduce water usage in the garden; how to help wildlife in the garden; and how to grow the tallest sunflowers! Click on the images to enlarge, or click on the files below to download. You can also pick up printouts from Sudbury in Bloom's stalls at the Green Sundays events on Market Hill.     
Bridge Farm Plants, Hadleigh Road, Monks Eleigh, IP7 7AY
Open 10am - 5pm every day. 01449 740502 www.bridgefarmplants.co.uk
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Sudbury in Bloom and Bridge Farm Plants share a love of Salvias, and with good reason! They start flowering in early June and with minimal care can keep filling your borders with colour until November. They are suitable for sun and part-shade and are perfect for pollinators. There has been a huge number of new varieties of woody-stemmed Salvias introduced in recent years, and you will find many of them around town. Hot Lips is best known, with it's red and white flowers, but they come in virtually every colour of the rainbow. Once the late-autumn flowers start to fade, simply cut back the whole plant by about half to a neat shape. This stops long shoots get damaged in the winter winds, and also stops the plant developing a messy, sprawly shape. Ideally cut back to directly above leaf shoots, as this is where the plant will start to regrow next year. Easy!  Tips courtesy of Bridge Farm Plants at Corn Craft, Monks Eleigh IP7 7AY. Open 10am to 4pm every day.
www.bridgefarmplants.co.uk Earn your green fingers young! Our special children's category is for youngsters living in the Sudbury and Cornard districts - aged 10 years old and under. Can you grow the tallest sunflower in town?? Watch our video tutorial to learn all about growing sunflowers. If you don't already have a plant, come and claim a free one from us during the Green Sundays event on Sudbury Market Hill on Sunday 20th June, 10am - 3pm! Tips courtesy of Bridge Farm Plants at Corn Craft, Monks Eleigh IP7 7AY. Open 10am to 4pm every day.
www.bridgefarmplants.co.uk Get top tips on filling your patio pots and planters this summer, and then enter our competition for residents of the Sudbury district. You could also get creative and see what other items you can plant up - just make sure they have drainage! Take a photo or two and upload them to our Pride of Sudbury competition form! Deadline for entering is Friday 16th July 2021 Tips courtesy of Bridge Farm Plants at Corn Craft, Monks Eleigh IP7 7AY. Open 10am to 4pm every day.
www.bridgefarmplants.co.uk Need some pointers on planting up hanging baskets? Watch our video tutorial, have a go, and then enter our competition! Tips courtesy of Bridge Farm Plants at Corn Craft, Monks Eleigh IP7 7AY. Open 10am to 4pm every day.
www.bridgefarmplants.co.uk Our Pride of Sudbury competition launches on Friday! It is open to all residents in the Sudbury district, including Ballingdon, Great Cornard and Little Cornard. One of the categories is best Wildlife & Eco Friendly Garden. Our video gives lots of tips and advice for achieving this. If your garden ticks a lot of the boxes then get your entry in to us! Tips courtesy of Bridge Farm Plants at Corn Craft, Monks Eleigh IP7 7AY. Open 10am to 4pm every day.
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In late May or early June chop off the top third or top half of the plants. Ideally cut immediately above leaf shoots, as plants will regrow better from these points. Come flowering times you will have shorter, stockier, stronger plants that shouldn't need staking - and are therefore lower maintenance!
If you have never dared to plant up your own hanging baskets and planters, now is a great time to try, as the winter ones are simpler to do than the summer ones!
If you want to give yourself something to look forward to in the spring, add in a handful of dwarf daffodils or other low-growing bulbs under the planting! At this time of year we are lightly trimming most of the plants we use to encourage them to bush out, for more flowers and better displays, as we do with our summer baskets. If you leave doing your baskets till later in the season you are likely to need more plants as they will not grow much in the colder weather. For healthy plants and helpful advice head to Bridge Farm Plants at Corn Craft, Monks Eleigh.
Open 10am-4pm Weds-Sun. www.bridgefarmplants.co.uk Order pre-planted hanging baskets for home delivery or collection at Bridge Farm Plants through supplier nursery Katie’s Garden Plant Centre July is the month for pruning SHRUBS Early-summer flowering shrubs are due their annual prunes about now. Treat Deutzia, Philadelphus and Wiegela the same way: cut out the old flowering shoots (they will look quite ragged with side shoots) and leave the straight shoots: these are the ones that will bloom next year. If it has been a good flowering year you might want to leave some of the old shoots for bulk!
PERENNIALS Sometimes it pays to be ruthless – if you cannot see any more buds on your Lupins, chop them back to the base now – leaves, stems and all – and you should be rewarded with extra flowers later on, as well as attractive fresh foliage. Other perennials which will benefit from the ‘Hampton Hack’ (as opposed to the ‘Chelsea Chop’) are Polemonium (Jacob’s Ladder) and the soft herbaceous Salvias, such as Caradonna, East Friesland and May Night – the likes of Salvia Hot Lips are treated differently. If you cannot see any more buds or flowers, other perennials that should be cut back to just above ground level include Delphiniums, Geraniums, Geums, Leucanthemums, Tanacetums and Veronicas, amongst others.
For healthy plants and helpful advice head to Bridge Farm Plants at Corn Craft, Monks Eleigh.
Open 10am-4pm Weds-Sun. www.bridgefarmplants.co.uk
FRUIT BUSHES The clock is ticking to give fruit bushes their annual prune. Many of the principles are the same as rose pruning: cut out dead, dying, diseased and weak stems to base. The aim is to have an uncluttered centre so other stems might need thinning out too. Gooseberries, redcurrants and blackcurrants usually crop best on stems that are two or three years old, so anything older can be removed. Autumn fruiting raspberries couldn’t be easier: just cut down everything to the ground. Summer raspberries are best cut after fruiting. For healthy plants and helpful advice head to Bridge Farm Plants at Corn Craft, Monks Eleigh.
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