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Why settle for a boring garden when you can have colour all season long? Proven Winners® plants bring your garden to life. From fresh spring flowers and vibrant summer colours to warm autumn hues - and all without much effort! This is because most Proven Winners® plants are easy to maintain. Put them in the ground, give them some love (and water 😉 ) and year after year enjoy a colourful garden that looks great.
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Inspiration, Winter, Gardening tips
Prepare your garden for winter: 5 tips for a healthy and wildlife-friendly winter garden
November is the perfect month to prepare your garden for winter. With a few smart adjustments, you will not only protect your plants, but also provide a nice shelter for wildlife such as birds, hedgehogs and insects. And plant evergreen and winter flowering shrubs this month, for a garden that brings colour all year round. With these five tips, your garden will stay healthy, colourful and full of life, even in the cold winter months.
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Inspiration, Winter, Gardening tips
The best time to make a garden plan
In February, the garden slowly awakens from its winter sleep. Carefully, the first buds appear on trees and shrubs. Meanwhile, it can still be quite cold, so you'd rather be indoors than outside. And that's fine, because there is not much to do in the garden yet. An ideal time to start planning for the new garden season next to the warm stove!
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Inspiration, Tips & tricks, Pollinator friendly
Turn your garden into a sweet shop for bees and butterflies!
Bees and butterflies are super important. Did you know that without these pollinators, there would be far fewer fruits and vegetables in the shops? So we should spoil them a bit! We will give you some ideas to make your garden bee- and butterfly-friendly and tell you which plants are real magnets for these useful insects.
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Tips & tricks, Pruning, Gardening tips
Hooray: pruning really isn't always necessary!
It is perhaps the most frequently described chore in the garden: pruning. Many gardeners are quite reluctant to do it because they are unsure about the approach. What is the best time, how much should be taken off? Pruning stress lurks. But relax! Many Proven Winners© shrubs don't need pruning to stay healthy and beautiful. And if you do want to prune, think about the reason.
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Inspiration, Hydrangea, Summer
A summer flowering plant with power: the panicle hydrangea
August is the perfect time to enjoy your garden. You can be outside for a long time and admire the flowering plants with their beautiful colours from the comfort of your lazy chair. Many summer flowering shrubs are now at their peak and some get a little past that during this month. But this is certainly not the case with the panicle hydrangea, or Hydrangea paniculata. Proven Winners© paniculata only get more beautiful as summer progresses. They will set your garden on fire until autumn! Get to know this versatile summer flowering shrub.
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Inspiration, Tips & tricks, Summer
The summer garden: this is how to have a feast of colours for months on end
Summer is here and that means only one thing: endlessly enjoying the beautiful flowering plants in your garden or on your balcony! You can choose from many kinds of summer flowering shrubs, in all kinds of colours and with different flowering times. With these tips, you will have colour in your garden all summer long and your plants will come through the summer in good shape.
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