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Hi, I am not a good gardener, so any advice appreciated!! I have a window trough and was wondering if there were any flowers, trailers etc I could put in this for the winter, rather than just having it bare?

All suggestions appreciated!!!!

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Daisychook x

On a vegetable theme............I seem to be seeing quite a lot of ornamental cabbage/kales plants in the shops just now!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

You could try Polyanthus with trailing ivy.

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And when you're back stops aching,
And you're hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.

Rudyard Kipling.

Winter pansies are good do-ers, though you do see them everywhere. Pretty but not unusual. A bit of ivy in with it breaks it up.
Incidentally I detest ornamental kale, they look like overblown sick roses and apparently taste like sh*t!

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I'm growing an oriental salad leaf mix in mine, yummy!

Mine always have ivy in (so tough and evergreen), and my lobelia is still flowering like mad. When its finished I'll put in some red cyclamen I think (pansies always go leggy and floppy for me)

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I have a row of 14 pots of Cyclemen on my railings surrounding my balcony and they really brighten up the place.

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And when you're back stops aching,
And you're hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.

Rudyard Kipling.

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Incidentally I detest ornamental kale, they look like overblown sick roses and apparently taste like sh*t![/QUOTE]

Thats cos you're not supposed to eat em!

Ok then, we'll go with another brassica........... Wallflowers. Bonny colours and a wonderful scent inter spaced with foget-me-nots!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

I KNOW you're not supposed to eat them - but a girl can try!

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I agree with Snadger, wallflowers and forget-me-nots - GORGEOUS!

You could try some small, early flowering daffodils. Tete a tete is very pretty, flowers early and does well in containers. Nothing like the daffs to brighten the spring.

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Mini cyclamen are really good - available now from garden centres and market stalls and Aldi, ivy to bulk it up a bit, and some crocus bulbs for early flowering colour. You could also put in some dwarf narcissus for spring colour.

Miniature iris are beautiful and start to flower in late Jan (in Cheshire anyway). Just bung them in now and they'll look wonderful for weeks. The foliage is thin, so it won't make the trough look untidy after the flowers have died back.

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Updated 13th September

Wow, thank you all very much.

(shall definitely give them ornamental veg a wide berth!!!!!!!!)

xx

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Daisychook x

Winter pansy's underplanted with spring Bulbs (min daffs jetfire, tete a tete, jack snipe or minnow. Hyacynths, tulips & crocus) nice varieagated Ivy and maybe some winterflowering Heathers. ......... bootiful

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A large group of professionals built the Titanic

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Fab thank yoU!

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Daisychook x