Top 3 beliefs to let go of in order to get a colour filled garden

without wasting money

You really want a garden bursting with brightly coloured flowers and you’re spending a fortune at the garden centre to try and make it a reality but your garden is still very much brown and green. How does everyone on Instagram make it look so bloody easy?!

Well for starters they’ve thrown these 3 beliefs in the bin.

A supermarket sweep style grab and go in the garden will work

You get the supermarket full of promise and hope, excited to spend your money and finally get that vibrant garden that’s been sat on your Pinterest board, in your screenshots album or in your head forever.

But once you set foot inside the door something strange happens, you come over all hot and panicky, the amount of choice is OVERWHELMING. Do you want bulbs or plants? Will they come back next year or will you be destined to repeat this painful experience annually? What colours to choose? Ahhhhhhhhh!

Your brain just shuts down and you find yourself shoving things in your trolley will nilly a la Dale Winton’s crew in the 90’s.

You get it home and start planting, but before long things are starting to look a bit ropey and certainly not producing the armfuls of blooms you’d envisaged. This is because you’ve been tricked into thinking that…

Anything you buy in the garden centre will thrive in your garden

Complete bollocks. Whilst I wish it was true that all of our gardens had the conditions to grow every plant available, it’s just not the case.

Many of us have neighbours houses casting shadows across the garden or large trees on the boundary line which completely knacker the soil all around them. The things present in our individual gardens make it trickier to grow certain types of plants. And some of them will never survive the deep shade cast by Muriel next door’s shed. Which is why you need to learn to match the plants that you buy to the conditions you have in your garden. The free guide you get when you subscribe to the Seed here, will show you how to work out your conditions.

There are also some beautiful looking plants available to buy that are actually only designed to last for one year. Whilst they have their place, my belief is that to have a garden that looks good for years to come you want to be growing largely perennials with some bulbs, corms, tubers and annuals mixed in in varying quantities. Did I lose you there? Don’t worry, I’m going to be explaining the difference between all of these types of plants in The Colour Masterclass happening on Monday 30th September 2024. I’ll also be sharing the perfect plant proportion formula I use to ensure your garden has the ideal balance of plants in it and will be colour-filled well into the future.

Picking your favourite colours will give you the vibe you want

Colour has a huge impact on our mood, thats why dopamine dressing is a thing. So before you decide what colour plants and flowers to grow in your garden you need to decide on the mood you want to create, how you want it to make you feel. That way you’ll end up with cohesive borders that make you feel something and thats when you can truly use your garden to help you feel calmer, happier.

Now i’ve told you what beliefs to get rid of, I'm showing you what beliefs to replace them with and what you can do to make your colour-filled garden come to life in my new masterclass, The Colour Masterclass. Click the pink button below to join us and colour bomb your garden with my support.