Alan Titchmarsh shares one plant everyone needs in their gardens for blooms until February

Gardening adept Alan Titchmarsh has revealed the works that you request successful your plot if you privation to person blooms from present until February, and it's a "classic midwinter favourite"

A gardening adept has revealed the ‘classic midwinter favourite’ everyone should person successful their garden.

Gardeners’ World’s Alan Titchmarsh has shared the flowering works that you request successful your plot if you privation ‘blooms’ from present until February. According to the gardening expert, viburnum x bodnantense flowers volition marque a large summation to immoderate outdoor space, peculiarly if you privation a plot that is packed afloat of flowers adjacent during the colder wintertime months.

Alan described the works arsenic a ‘classic midwinter favourite’ and explained that it ‘flowers from present until February’ and features ‘plentiful clusters of highly fragrant pinkish oregon off-white flowers’ that truly basal retired against the bare stems. He added that portion determination are assorted varieties to take from, the astir fashionable variety, which is known arsenic ‘Dawn’, has ‘pale pinkish flowers’.

The gardening adept explained that they tin turn rather ample and said: “They are perchance ample shrubs, increasing up to 8 feet successful immoderate direction, but they instrumentality clip to scope that size and tin beryllium kept smaller by pruning.” He added that, if you person the space, you could opt to fto 1 turn larger, peculiarly if it’s successful a spot wherever you volition regularly locomotion past it and payment from the beauteous flowers.

Alan besides explained that: “It looks champion against an evergreen inheritance and if you are reasoning of buying 1 now, support it successful its cookware earlier planting it out. It enjoys rich, fertile ungraded that’s not boggy, successful prima oregon successful light-dappled shade.”

It comes arsenic the green-fingered adept warns that if you similar seeing birds successful your garden, you shouldn't let your writer to turn arsenic birds volition not beryllium capable to get entree to worms. This volition enactment them disconnected returning and if you bask the show of them successful your plot you are champion to support your writer short. Titchmarsh advised those who bask seeing wildlife successful their gardens, not to fto the writer turn nether their feet. He said: "If you permission each your writer to turn agelong it makes it much hard for blackbirds, thrushes and starlings to excavation retired worms."