


Bedding Plants
If you love seasonal colour – you will LOVE our Seasonal Bedding House!
At Aylett Nurseries, we take pride in growing a spectacular range of bedding plants to fill your garden with vibrant and seasonal splendour. Whether you’re planting beds, borders, patios, tubs, pots, hanging baskets, or window boxes, we have the perfect plants to transform your outdoor space.
For a breathtaking summer display, plant your summer bedding plants from late May to early June, once the risk of frost has passed. If you’re looking for instant impact, we offer:
Ready-planted summer hanging baskets – available from mid/late May in our Seasonal Bedding House.
Beautifully arranged planted containers – expertly planted by our nursery team to provide effortless seasonal colour.
Caring for Your Bedding Plants
Most bedding plants thrive in a sunny spot with well-prepared soil. Before planting, enrich the soil with well-rotted manure or compost and a balanced fertiliser. Keep your plants well-watered, feed regularly with a liquid fertiliser, and deadhead spent blooms to encourage continuous flowering.
How to buy
How you buy your seasonal bedding plants will really depend on the growing space and environment you have; a heated greenhouse will provide the best environment for seeds, seedling and young plants to flourish without the worry of losing your tender plants to frost. Frost free windowsills and conservatories can be ideal for a smaller selection of young plants and seeds, or you can wait until the end of May, when we would expect the risk of frost to have passed, and buy potted plants or bedding packs ready to put straight into their position in your garden.
We offer bedding plants at every stage of growth to suit your needs:
Seeds – A wide selection for direct sowing or indoor propagation.
Young seedlings – Ready to be pricked out or potted on, available in February and March.
Young plants – Single plants in cell trays, ideal for early planting (March & April).
Boxes, strips, and pots – Seasonal availability for hardy annuals (March-April), summer bedding (May-June), and spring-flowering varieties like Wallflowers, Forget-Me-Nots, and Winter Pansies (August-October).
Aylett’s Choice – The varieties of plants in our Aylett’s Choice boxes have been selected by our team from specialist young plant nurseries who are continually breeding and introducing new and innovative varieties. The young plants are all grown on our nursery for you to use in your baskets and containers. Some have unique colours, or other attributes, that you will not find in standard boxes of bedding plants, and all have excellent qualities that make them part of our Aylett’s Choice.