Episode 1: What to plant in Spring with Dr. Noel Kingsbury

Episode 1: What to plant in Spring with Dr. Noel Kingsbury

During this lesson, Dr. Noel Kingsbury will give you advice on what and how you should plant to get the perfect Spring garden. During this lecture Noel will cover spring flowering shrubs, colourful shrubs, bulb suggestions, ideal conditions, bulbs for underplanting perennials, how to create a bulb plan for spring and summer perennials as well as giving you some general tips to get you that perfect Spring garden.

Plants covered:

- Tulips - Forget-me-nots - Roses - Magnolia x leobneri 'Leonard Messel' - Prunus 'Kanzan' - Berberis darwinii - Prunus 'Ukon' - Daphne bholua - Corylopsis paucflora - Anemone nemorosa - Corydalis flexuosa - Galanthus nivalis - Cyclamen coum - Chinodoxa luciliae - Helleborus x hybridus - Pulsatilla vulgaris - Mite 'AGM' - Muscari armenaicum - Euphorbia characias - Primula elatior - Ranunculus ficaria - Lamium maculatum - Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign' - 'Dan Du Plessis' - Allium Giganteum - Narcissus 'Actaea'

To find out more from Dr. Noel Kingsbury don't forget to have a look at his online course Planting Design with Perennials where Noel takes a broad look at a variety of contemporary approaches to using perennials, with a particular focus on naturalistic approaches. You will explore how to create planting schemes that suit the particular conditions of your garden, covering a wide range of temperate zone climates. A one off opportunity to get personal tuition from a world expert in perennial planting.