Small bouquet for summer pots

In the fall, it’s time to reinvigorate declining pots by cleaning and replacing perennials with seasonal ones.

Mid-October, it’s time to transform your planters and pots so that they are decorative in late autumn and all winter.

• First, pull up the annual plants. Traditional perennials will go dormant, while others will retain their foliage, such as heuches . As for the grasses, they are tinged with gold or purple and remain decorative in the bad season, sparkling under the frost.
• Cut back the following spring to see the new leaves appear.
• Clean the plants to be preserved, by removing the damaged leaves, and surfacing with a substrate composed of potting soil and compost, on a few centimeters.
• Pack.

• Replace annuals with primroses , pansies or violas that will bloom all winter amid grasses and other perennial plants.
• If there is room, add one or two ivy with small leaves, to fall back to the front, a hellebore , a heather or an evergreen fern.
• Plant a few small bulbs (snowdrops, grape hyacinths, crocuses, etc.) to obtain a charming flowering from February.
• Pack well with your fingers, fill with compost if necessary. Water.

In winter, add water when it is not freezing and the soil is dry on the surface.