Potted Colour - Fuchsia, petunias, begonias, lobelias and a rose

When we started stocking our garden, buying small cheap and cheerful flowering annuals was a quick, easy way to brighten up the yard.

We picked up this Fuchsia Candy Lights on sale around Christmas-time and it has been flowering fairly continuously since then. An odd looking flower which is meant to flower almost all year round.

These extremely bright petunias were a great buy (again on sale). They are called "Hotwave Petunias". We had them in a hanging basket and they flowered very profusely all summer long and into autumn before finally giving in to the colder temperatures. We also had some purple petunias as groundcover which flowered and spread very well all summer and into autumn.

These red, white and pink (redleaf?) begonias have been flowering since summer up until now going into winter.

A lot of the time, when you buy "potted colour" at garden centres, they don't specify what it actually is. After quickly Googling "small, blue flowers", I think these are likely lobelia (Lobelia erinus). A really nice cornflower blue that contrasts against all the other colours in the garden.

We also have several mini/patio roses for extra colour (they are unscented). This is one of them just beginning to bloom, a really nice red miniature rose which is an almost perfectly scaled-down exhibition form.