"Mr Pounder" wrote ...
Thanks to all of the people that helped me.

What I did was to rip up a flower bed that never did much and put some
pebbles down.
The pebbles are all the way around my back lawn, the flower bed looked a
bit out of place.
Them pebbles don't come cheap!

I moved an existing big stone plant pot that always seems to have green
stuff and some sort of flowers growing out of it; I planted some crocus
bulbs in there. This should give me some colour Feb - March.

Thanks again for the help, pity all newsgroups aren't like this one.

For year round colour you could always do what my next door neighbours have
done in their front garden, let the weeds grow and flower, and fill the
planters with plastic flowers, lovely! The back garden has metal painted
flowers! Is that one step up?

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK