27/05/2026
Most gardens have two good months and ten months of nothing. That's not a climate problem. It's a planning problem.
Walk your garden on the first of every month. Count what's blooming. Any month with zero flowers is a gap you can fill.
The fix doesn't require a redesign. One plant per gap:
Hellebore blooms in the dead of winter when nothing else will. Daffodils carry spring before the perennials wake up. Zinnias cover summer and keep going until frost if you deadhead them. Chrysanthemums carry fall alone if nothing else shows up.
Four plants. Four seasons. That's the minimum that eliminates the worst dead stretches — for you and for every pollinator trying to find food between March and November.
Count the gaps first. Fill the worst one. Then the next.
