Otter Magazine - Summer 2020

Summer 2020

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O ur Beautiful Gardens Summer edition is filled with 8 20
ideas and inspiration to help you make the most of
your garden. What lifts the spirits more than ContentsSummer 2020
enjoying time outdoors in a garden bursting with stunning PATIO PLANTS OUTDOOR LIFE
flowers, bright foliage and an abundance of wildlife?
4 Little wonders 14 Summer living
Growing has always been at the heart of what we do here hy we love calibrachoa Exclusive furniture for
at Otter – we love to nurture stunning, great quality plants in summer pots your outdoor space
for you to enjoy. Whether you want sensational hanging
baskets, glorious containers or beds brimming with colour, 6 Flower power PLANT INSPIRATION
we are here to help you achieve the best results. Container plants
guaranteed to inspire 16 Colour all summer long
And there’s so much more to Otter than our lovely ard-working plants with
plants; our seven branches are packed with a wide range OUTDOOR LIFE long-lasting flowers
of gardening and lifestyle products, from practical garden
products to attractive ornaments and accessories. Quite 8 Under the sun 20 Fine romance
simply, we have everything you need to create your perfect Stylish furniture options eautiful roses for patio
summer garden. For the all-important finishing touch, take for every garden pots and borders
a look at our wide choice of stylish garden furniture. We
really do believe it’s important to take a moment to sit back, 12 Time for a barbecue 23 Pretty pastels
relax and appreciate what you’ve achieved in your garden. Charcoal barbecues for Elegant hydrangeas are
easy outdoor meals back in fashion
Whatever you need to make your garden bloom this year,
our expert teams are on hand instore or on the telephone 13 Best for birds
to provide suggestions and advice. We’ll help your garden Simple tips for feeding
spring into summer! garden birds

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The diminutive size and
plentiful flowers of dwarf

le atis Elodi’ make it
perfect for planting in
hanging baskets, containers
and window boxes.

S EET FLA OURS SUNSHINE DAISIES BE CLE ER
The ruffled flowers of IT CORAL
Strawberry Summer Bring a smile to your face with these two cheerful colour-
reeze ose’ may look like changing Argyranthemum daisies – ideal for summer Coral is a calming colour
so this beautiful Calliope
miniature roses, but they’ll containers or in a cottage garden border. ‘Apricot’ starts geranium is right on trend.
soon turn into uicy fruits. orange then fades to pale salmon pink, while ‘Rose
deal in a border, a patio pot Sitting neatly between
Bicolour’ has two-tone rose-pink flowers. Both will bloom orange and pink, it has
or a raised bed. for weeks when grown in a sunny location. all the usual Calliope
characteristics, including
ERFE Garden yourself to long-lasting flowers, intense
FNOR N RELAXATION & CREATIVITY colour, and excellent

E If you have more time to spend out in your garden, weather-resistance.
patio or balcony this summer, here are three simple
T IN PIN UP AND A A
Filling a hanging basket ways to boost your wellbeing… f you want instant impact
The pretty froth of dainty and a pop of colour, we
flowers on iascia Morning Exercise in open air – try yoga, meditation or simple stretches. recommend the hun er ia
Mist’ sits well alongside Arizona’ climber trio. These
other popular container Make hot water infusions from potted herbs – experiment fast-growing black-eyed
plants, like petunia, bidens with mint leaves, stems of lemon verbena and sprigs of Susans’ will happily climb
fennel leaves. Add a slice of fresh ginger up obelisks and patio trellis
and nemesia. or a spoonful of honey for flavour. panels, and the flowers are

Create nature-themed art – try painting irresistibly uplifting.
or photographing the plants you see around
you, or press flowers for cards and collages with a BEAUTIFUL GARDENS/
flower press or two heavy books.

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PERFECT
T he popularity of summer rain and a brisk breeze, PA R T N E R S
calibrachoa is soaring, and they need no deadheading
thanks to an increasing because the old flowers simply For an instant splash of
selection of colourful varieties. fade away discreetly, as new seasonal colour, calibrachoa
What makes these hardworking blooms appear. Calibrachoa are can also be planted among
little plants real winners is an also ideal for those gardeners
abundance of flowers and their with limited outdoor space flowering perennials and
easy-care appeal. Like petunias, because they’re perfectly shrubs that are permanently
calibrachoa produce beautiful proportioned for smaller planted in pots. Simply tuck
fluted flowers on elegant containers, narrow window
trailing stems, and they boxes and hanging baskets. three or four calibrachoa
continue to appear for many plants into gaps around the
months. But calibrachoa With a wide variety of edge of the pot, and let the
also have some welcome colours now available – delicate stems gently trail
additional benefits. including the bold bi-coloured
combinations and double downwards. ere are
LO AINTENANCE COLOUR blooms we’ve highlighted eight of our favourite
here – there’s a calibrachoa planting partners
The small flowers of available in store to transform
calibrachoa can tolerate every summer container. eum
Salvia

Artemisia

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Super ells vening Star Super ells angerine Star

loomtastic Super ells ou lette Love S ept ahlia heuchera and a
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make a captivating trio

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AT O A TS E EN

Fploowweerr DAS ING
DOUBLE DAISIES
steospermums look exotic but
they’re easy to grow and will
flower until autumn. hat we love
most about these latest dazzling
daisies are the frothy double
flowers, perfect for patio pots or

a sunny border.

1 ‘ ou le elight’ 2 ‘ ou le Pink’
‘ lue erry Shake’ 4 ‘ ou le

1 ello ’ 5 ‘ ou le hite’

iven up your seasonal pots 2 5
and borders with dazzling daisies 4

and pretty petunias

S easonal containers and summer borders
are a lovely opportunity to experiment
with uplifting colour combinations.
So, where should you look for inspiration?

T RILLS AND FRILLS

Although plant trends can change from
season to season, double ‘frilled’ flowers
and striking colour combinations are
always appealing – like the sun-loving
osteospermums and bi-coloured petunias
showcased here. There are also many other
colourful bedding plants available in store,
all guaranteed to lift your spirits and
transform your containers.

Top tips
HOW TO PLANT PERFECT SUMMER POTS

Choose a multi-purpose se three to five plants in lace a plant
compost – there are plenty a small container, and five saucer beneath
to help save water
of peat-free options plants or more in
Add one scoop of water- larger pots ater your pots
saving gel granules and daily in high summer,
another of slow-release For maximum impact, or when the compost
combine upright bushy
plant feed plants with colourful trailers feels dry

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Summer containers and seasonal bedding are
the perfect chance to be adventurous with colour

TREND SETTING PETUNIAS
etunias are popular container plants because they trail beautifully
and produce masses of velvety blooms. Our favourites for summer
include striking stripes and bold bi-coloured flowers, but many other
beautiful petunia varieties are also available in store. imply deadhead

regularly to encourage flowers from June to late eptember.
6 ‘ ing of Hearts’ 7 ‘ ueen of Hearts’ 8 ‘Lightning Sky’
9 ‘S eetunia Starfish’ 10 ‘Miss Marvellous’

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BRIG T BO ES

f you don t have
a garden, why not give

yourself a brighter
outlook with a window
box or a balcony planter
brimming with summer

petunias

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FOR AN EXOTIC
EFFECT

Give your garden a global flavour
with these exotic beauties. The long-
flowering and both
have gorgeous fiery-coloured blooms
and dark leaves, while the
has incredible pink and burgundy
striped foliage all year round.

Alstroemeria All year
June–Oct

2 Cordyline
Canna
June–Oct

all sCumomloeur rlong 1
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Discover the plants that will make your summer beds and
borders pack a punch from May right through to autumn

W ith clever planting, your NE
garden can be bursting LO ED B BEES
with colour from late er ena onariensis ‘ oyal reams’
spring to early autumn. To do is a brand-new compact variety that bees
that, you need a combination of and butterflies will adore. deal in a sunny
versatile herbaceous perennials, border or in a wildlife garden. July–Oct
bold bedding plants and striking
evergreen shrubs – including
classic choices and exciting new
varieties. For inspiration, here are
some of our recommendations:
simply select the effect you want,
then choose your own colourful
favourites in store.

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FOR A DASH OF
DRAMA

NEW Fantastic foliage can be more striking
FOR than flowers, and that’s certainly true
2020
of these amazing coleus – perfect
along the edge of a border. Another

drama queen is this black-leaved
morning glory which will climb up an
obelisk, or trail from a hanging basket.

10 Coleus Freaky Leaves Main Street
4 5 Fifth Avenue July–Oct
11 Coleus Freaky Leaves Main Street
6 Space Cake July–Oct
FOR COTTAGE GARDEN 12 Ipomeoa ‘Sunpuma Purple
ELEGANCE
Princess’ July–Sept
Cottage garden planting works in any
garden, and these three perennials are
superb varieties of classic favourites:
pop the dark-leaved astrantia and the
compact foxglove in the middle of
a shady border, and plant the early-
flowering catmint in a sunny spot.

4 Astrantia ‘Star of Love’ June–Oct
5 Digitalis ‘Pink Panther’ June–Aug
6 Nepeta ‘Cat’s Pajamas’ May–Sept

10

7 8 11
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FOR A BOLD POP FOR
OF COLOUR NFEOWR 2020
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Every summer border needs a splash 12
of colour and this gorgeous trio are
guaranteed eye-catchers. This rose-pink BEAUTIFUL GARDENS/17
allium flowers in mid-summer, while the
two-tone salvia and the shocking pink
dahlia will explode into life from late

summer onwards.
7 Allium ‘Millennium’ June–July
8 Salvia ‘Cherry Lips’ July–Oct
9 Dahlia ‘Hypnotica Pink’ July–Oct

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ose anessa ell and R oses are one of the nation’s
er ena onariensis favourite flowers, for the
oth attract pollinating very good reason that
insects this popular plant is so versatile.
They look wonderful in so
roAmfiannece many different garden locations,
and blend just as easily into
oses are incredibly versatile. o, if you want a modern mixed border as they
a plant for the patio or border that will flower all do in a classic cottage garden.
summer long, we have the perfect rose for you There are shrub roses that work
beautifully as a flowering hedge,
1 with hips to feed birds in winter,
24 and climbing roses that scramble
up and over arches and pergolas.
/BEAUTIFUL GARDENS Some roses happily spread across
the ground, covering bare soil
with their glossy leaves, while
compact roses are bred to suit
pots and containers, with dainty
blooms and naturally short
stems. Many add fabulous
fragrance and rich, dramatic
colours to your garden.

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H ydrangeas have enjoyed a renaaissance in recent
years as more garden-owners realise their full
potential. Not only do hydrangeas grow well in a
sunny spot or dappled shade, they also produce large
colourful flowers from June to October. So, where will
a hydrangea work best in
your garden?
S EET TREATS The new compact
The Flair Flavours range
varieties grow beautifully
contains mophead’ and
lacecap’ hydrangeas in beautiful in large patio pots,
bi-coloured combinations. All are while more traditional
dense and compact up to m hydrangeas – including
in height which makes them popular varieties like
ideal for a container or planted ‘Runaway Bride’ and
at the front of a mixed border. ‘Polestar’ – can be planted
1 Cotton Candy 2 Minty ce in a mixed shrub border, a
naturalistic ‘wild’ garden,
lack erry Pie 4 Pink or among trees at the
Lollipop 5 lue erry
Cheesecake 6 S eet Cupcake
also S eet Marshmallo p2 woodland’s edge. They
even look fantastic as an
OLD FA OURITES informal flowering hedge.
7 H ‘French olero’ Hydrangeas tend to
Shell-pink blooms spread all
over its many branches. come in variations of blue,
eight: m June-Sept white or pink, and their
large textured leaves
contrast well with other
8 H pani ulata ‘Polestar’
Extra-compact with creamy- shade-loving plants –
white cone-shaped flowers including ferns, heucheras
that turn blush-pink. and hellebores. Opposite
are nine versatile
eight: cm June-Oct

9 H ‘ una ay ride’ hydrangeas for patio pots
Masses of ivory lacecap and borders, but you’ll
flowers on graceful stems. also find other beautiful
alternatives in store.
eight: . m July-Sept

Three seasonal tips
FOR HEALTHY HYDRANGEAS

ater in summer ydrangeas look their best when grown in
a rich, moist but not water-logged soil.

Mulch in inter A mulch of well-rotted manure or compost
helps to protect new shoots and keeps weeds down.

Feed in spring The magnesium and iron in itax ydrangea
Food will encourage bigger, better flowers. ou can also use
a nutritious feed for acid-loving shrubs, such as Miracle- ro
Azalea, Camellia hododendron Continuous elease

lant Food. This works especially well for
blue-flowered hydrangeas which love
an acid soil, whereas alkaline soil suits
hydrangeas with naturally pink flowers.

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Plymouth Garden
Centres

Hopton
Holt Apex with gallery

Malvern
Collection
Studio
Apex

Visit your local Otter Garden Centre

Ottery St Mary Plymouth Torbay Wincanton Taunton Jack’s Patch
Gosford Road, Chittleburn Hill, Moles Lane, Bruton Road, Pen Elm Hill, Newton Road,
Ottery St Mary, Brixton, Plymouth, Marldon, Paignton, Wincanton, Norton Fitzwarren, Bishopsteignton,
Devon EX11 1LZ Devon PL8 2BH Devon TQ3 1SY Somerset BA9 8HA Taunton TA2 6PE Teignmouth TQ14 9PN
Tel: 01404 815 815 Tel: 01752 405 422 Tel: 01803 873 300 Tel: 01963 331 34 Tel: 01823 323 777 Tel: 01626 776 996

Delivery We sell and accept Opening Times
service Otter Garden Centres and Monday to Saturday – 9am to 5.30pm
available National Garden Gift Cards Sunday – 10.30am to 4.30pm
Late-Night Wednesdays
www.ottergardencentres.com Open until 8pm at our Ottery St Mary
OtterGardenCentres and Plymouth Garden Centres until
ottergardencentres December
@ottergc
Please check our website for up-to-date
opening times before travelling

All offers while stocks last. Please call to check availability before making a special journey. E&EO. Prices correct at time of going to print. Actual products may differ from those illustrated.