Floral Fantasia inspiration from Hyde Hall

Located near to the Global Growth Vegetable Garden, the bedding displays feature some 4,000 individual plants and 70 new cultivars. New this year is a rudbeckia trial of 90 cultivars, including some never shown before. ‘We are extremely grateful to garden writer, broadcaster and horticulturist Peter Seabrook for his ongoing support of Floral Fantasia at Hyde Hall,’ says Curator Robert Brett.

Compact Peruvian lilies

Alstroemerias give long-lasting displays of patterned blooms

Filigree grasses

A silvery cultivar of Miscanthus knits the planting together 

Bedding plants are usually colourful half-hardy, short-lived or annual plants, grown for displays in beds or containers. They may be changed seasonally, with spring, summer and winter bedding displays each using different plants of appropriate hardiness and flowering times.

bedding plants

Daisies and angels

Angelonia and Argyranthemum provide warm purple flowers