Cheap and Easy to Tend seasonal plants for my garden tubs

keepcalmandcavachon And classy too, a great big mix of everything looks like a bowl of sick! 🤮🤮

Geums. They are gorgeous and keep on flowering beautifully.

No-one has mentioned Heucheras, which come with foliage of all colours,. are very happy in tubs, like shade and some sun, flower from spring on to summer or longer, and will survive frost as evergreens or will come back every spring if they're the sort that will die back. I am mad about them. They are easily found in any garden-centre. Though the flowers are not the best virtue they have, they will thrive as a cut flower in vases.

Honestly, you can’t go wrong with marigolds. The best £5 I think I’ve ever spent 3 years ago when Asda had a special offer of 3 trays of marigold seedlings for that amount. I am not an experienced gardener, but 95% of them grew into beautiful plants with flowers of different shades of yellow, orange and red. They made me happy just looking at them. They lasted months and then came up again the next year. I even had one or two last year as well. They brought me so much joy.

A packet of nasturtiums; cheap as chips and you get loads. Quick to germinate, can be used on their own to tumble out of pots or baskets or, alternatively, used to bulk up with other plants. The flowers are edible too (lovely in salads, with a peppery flavour)

For a showy individual pot, I use New Guinea impatiens. They are bigger than the small bedding impatiens, and flower all summer.

Oh joy. I’ve just been to the village shop in the next village ( we no longer have one since they closed the post office down), you know, the sort of tiny shop that sells everything. Anyway it didn’t have what I needed but it did have four trays of snapdragons…I’ve been trying to get snapdragons with no success for two years now.

Nemesia? I have some lovely vanilla scented ones and they are trouble free - just water when the compost feels dry about 2 inches down. Although most people treat them as annuals, mine are in their third season. I just leave them in the pot in a sheltered spot over winter (Hertfordshire area).

I'd forgotten Marigolds, love them.

Pelargoniums/geraniums are so easy to look after. I seen a tip on Facebook to overwinter outdoors . If you just take the pots down put them against a wall that has a radiator on,the warmth will add to protection. I covered the top with chipped bark and made sure they were raised off the ground. I have just top dressed with compost and have about 10 lovely flowering now.

I use Aldi, B& M and local outlets for cheap strips of bedding plants, loads at this time of year.
Geraniums, lobelia, cosmos, fuschia are some of the ones I’ve found slug proof, slugs love busy lizzies ime. I don’t like the look of begonias, though they too are snail proof.
Secret to plants not looking cheap is to keep within a colour spectrum eg pink, white, lilac.