It may not seem like it, but there’s a whole lot going on in your garden in March.
Better Homes and Garden’s garden editor Jenny Dillon has picked three top plants that power up as summer fades, and rounded up the flowers and vegetables you should be planting in your garden right now.
3 plants that power up in March
Celosia
“A showy annual, celosia’s colours are like a stunning sunset.”
Heliotrope
“The perfume from heliotrope smells like a freshly baked cherry pie.”
Helenium
“Almost a metre high, helenium loves a soft, late-summer breeze.”
Flowers to plant in March
- Ageratum
- Alyssum
- Aquilegia
- Cineraria
- Delphinium
- Hollyhock
- Lobelia
- Lupin
- Marigold
- Nigella
- Polyanthus
- Sweet pea
Vegetables to plant now
- Beetroot
- Broad beans
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chives
- Leek
- Lettuce
- Onion
- Parsnip
- Radish
- Silverbeet
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