With summer coming to a close, September marks the changing of the seasons. This month we’re celebrating movement in the Feel Good Garden.
Category: Bedding
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Nature’s time to plant
Autumn is the perfect time to plant! The soil is still warm which allows roots to grow ready to support healthy top growth in the spring. Now is the ideal time to renovate borders or create spaces for additional planting. Here are some reliable choices to pop into newly created spaces for year-round interest.
Build your all season planter…
Autumn is a great time to create hardy planters that will provide a full year of interest. We have a great range of over 40 hardy evergreen patio and container plants in 11cm pots ideal to create lasting impact through the seasons. Here is a planter we created last autumn and photographed in the spring to inspire you to try yourself.
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August Feel Good Gardens
August is here! From hedgehogs to lady birds, we have designed this month’s garden to encourage new visitors into your outdoor space. Get even closer to our local wildlife by making your back garden a safe haven for nature. Scroll down to find out nine things you can do in your garden to help insects, birds and animals.
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July Feel Good Gardens
Get your garden ready for a month full of summer celebrations as we add some bright colours to our well-being gardens.
Whether you are hosting a garden party or celebrating from the comfort of your own patio or balcony, we have the perfect additions to add a pop of colour to your borders.
This beautiful array of colourful plants have all been handpicked by our Horticultural Manager Jon, to help you create the ‘Colour’ look in your garden at home! A stunning mix of herbaceous perennials and shrubs that add instant colour to your beddings at home!
In the growhouse this month we have our star products that will help you grow your colourful plants for the best bloom. All of these items are available to purchase in-store and online. Hand selected by our Head of Retail to give you the best results at home.
Complete your ‘Colour’ look with these accessories that bring it all together while adding to theme! Garden accessories make a huge difference to your outdoor living area. Bringing your indoor’s outdoors not only extends your living room but also adds little extra touch of home to your garden! Perfect for celebrating! All these products can be purchased online and in-store.
We hope you have a fabulous month full of garden parties and celebrating! If our Feel Good Garden has inspired you to recreate your own Colourful well-being garden at home, be sure to upload a photo and tag us on social media! @CoolingsGardenCentre #CoolingsGC. We love to see your tags!
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Coolings Feel Good Gardens – June
This month we are celebrating everything ‘Beautifully British’! In line with getting ready for the Queen’s Jubilee, our theme for this month’s well-being garden is…
Get your garden ready for a month full of patriotic celebrations as we celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Whether you are hosting a garden party or celebrating from the comfort of your own patio or balcony, we have the perfect additions that not only add a touch of patriotism, but those that also add a beautiful aroma to your outdoor space. Our Feel Good Gardens can be found at all 4 of our sites. Find your local Coolings here.
‘Scent & Celebration’ checklist
This beautiful array of red, white and blue plants have all been handpicked by our Horticultural Manager Jon, to help you create the ‘Scent & Celebration’ look in your garden at home! A stunning mix of herbaceous perennials that add instant colour to your patriotic beddings!
In the growhouse this month we have our star products that will help you grow your Scent & Celebration plants for the best bloom. All of these items are available to purchase in-store and online. Hand selected by our Head of Retail to give you the best results at home.
Complete your ‘Scent & Celebration’ look with these accessories that bring it all together while adding to theme! Garden accessories make a huge difference to your outdoor living area. Bringing your indoor’s outdoors not only extends your living room but also adds little extra touch of home to your garden! Perfect for celebrating! All these products can be purchased online and in-store.
Watch our walk through!
Join Bobby & Jon for a walk through of this month’s Feel Good Garden.
Bobby shows us his favourite shop products while Jon talks us through his plant selection process so you can continue the celebrations in your garden at home.
We hope you have a fabulous month full of garden parties and celebrating! If our Feel Good Garden has inspired you to recreate your own ‘Scent & Celebration’ well-being garden at home, be sure to upload a photo and tag us on social media! @CoolingsGardenCentre #CoolingsGC. We love to see your tags!
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Coolings Feel Good Gardens – May
There is nothing quite as satisfying as growing your own – imagine the joy of tucking into your first roast dinner with home grown fluffy roast potatoes!
Chard ‘Rainbow’
This wonderful vegetable is rich in nutrients making it the perfect addition to your diet. This Chard requires full sun / part shade and is perfect for cut and come again use!
Sweet Pea – Spencer Mixed
The glorioulsy sweet scented Sweet Pea flowers throughout the Summer. They are fantastic blooms for picking and enjoying fragrance infoors. Super easy to grow up a support.
Artichoke Cynara Scolymus
The Globe Artichoke is a magnificent statuesque plant that will return year after year and produce delicious large thistle-like flowers that can be boiled and eaten as a gourmet treat once the fluffy “choke” in the flower centre has been removed.
Apple Malus domestica ‘Ballerina Flamenco’
This Apple Tree is very reliable with a columnar habit. The dark red, crisp fruit are suitable for eating or cooking. Ballerina Flamenco grows in most soils and in sun or part shade making
them very easy to grow!
Shop the May theme look in-store or online:
Sweet Pea Spencer Mixed (9cm Pot)
Chard ‘Rainbow’ Mixed Multi-Pack
Blackcurrant Ribes ‘Black ‘n’ Red’ 3L
Chard ‘Rainbow’ Mixed Multi-Pack
Ballerina Apple Flamenco
Smart Veggies-Onion, Radish, Lettuce Stk
Smart 14 Kikuyu Faux Rattan Cone
Miracle-Gro Performance Organics Fruit & Veg Food Granular 1kg
Elho Green Basics Stack & Grow Large Living Black
Levington Tomorite Peat Free Planter
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An Update from Coolings
We have been happy to donate some of our beautiful plants to some local schools, hospitals and care homes. These have included Warren Road School, Hayes Primary School, Darent Valley Hospital and Bishop Justus School. Our key workers are doing such as fantastic job at the moment and we hope the plants help to brighten up their workspaces.
Deliveries to local schools and hospitals
You may have also noticed that we have launched a new website. It has been a long time in the making and we are delighted to have a sleeker, modern look. We hope that it improves your experience of using our website and allows easier navigation of the online shop.
Looking forward, we are hoping that we will be able to reopen soon and are looking into how we can practice social distance effectively. With Spring well underway, we would love to allow our visitors back to see our beautiful site. We will only open when we are sure that we can keep both customers and staff safe and until that time we will continue to offer online deliveries.
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Arthurs Garden
To order online please visit www.coolings.co.uk/shop. We are currently only delivering to the inner delivery postcode area due to the number of vans we have, so please check that your address is eligible for delivery before trying to order. The minimum order value is £30 and orders over £80 in value will receive free delivery.
From all of us here at Coolings, please keep safe, enjoy the sunshine and get working on those gardens!
#theexperienceisgrowing
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Tips on Planting Baskets with Beautiful Bedding
At Coolings we know our plants because we grow our plants! We have our own on-site nursery and 100 years’ experience in the business of bringing colour into our customers’ lives. In a busy world, gardens are a place where we can relax and express creativity through our choice and use of plants. Even people living in flats or sheltered accommodation can still plant and take enjoyment from containers and window boxes.
It is always a pleasure to talk to customers and see pictures of the successes they have had using Coolings plants. We regularly learn something new ourselves from this exchange of ideas, which is indeed part of the joy of our work.
Experimenting with seasonal plants is fun! However, we recognise that a lot of people appreciate a little bit of guidance with their choice. When planting containers and hanging baskets, there is a proven formula for success: “Thriller, Filler, Spiller”.
“Thriller”
This provides the height, focus and ‘wow’ in the middle or back of the planter. There is a wide choice! Upright fuchsias, non-stop begonias, arctotis, marguerites, nicotiana, euryops, cosmos, osteospermums, regal pelargoniums, geraniums, new guinea impatiens, salvias, coleus, gaura. Cordylines also make great centrepieces with its extravagant fountain of foliage.“Filler”
These are the flowers and foliage around the “Thriller” that are used to fill out the container with colour and interest. Begonias, petunias, dianthus, dwarf dahlia, ageratum, bush lobelia, allysum, Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’, to name but a few. In practice some of the “Thrillers” such as geraniums in larger planters can be used as the “Fillers”.“Spiller”
Plants that spill out and tumble down the side of the container. What a choice! surfinias, mini-trailing petunias, trailing geraniums, trailing fuchsias, cascade lobelia, Dicondra ‘Silver Falls’, trailing begonia, helicrysum, bacopa, diascia, nemesia, scavola, brachyscome, verbena, bidens. A truly amazing “Spiller” plant is Tradescantia ‘Purple Sabre’.Much like making a cake, it is easy to follow a simple recipe for success using the “Thriller, Filler, Spiller” principle. Download our colourful cookbook of teamed planting ideas for pots and baskets.
Jon’s Top Tip for Success
Always use good quality compost as the growing media for your plants! You get what you pay for and we recommend our own formula Coolings Professional Potting Compost. A million award winning plants home-produced in it by us on our nursery every year is hopefully recommendation enough! -
Bizzies are Back!
Unlike most other bedding plants, bizzies delight in shade as well as the sun and create lovely colourful ground cover. Great companions with hostas and hydrangeas.
For a full on statement effect, bizzies will always ‘WOW’ when planted on their own in pots or as part of a mixed arrangement of plants as they are hard to beat for continuous colour. Feed throughout the season with an all-purpose plant food (such as Miracle-Gro all purpose soluble plant food) to ensure flowering from early in the season until the first frosts.
We will also continue to offer the larger growing New Guinea Impatiens which are also mildew resistant and available in packs and one litre pots!