petunias

[gleno1]

Good morning .Is it too early to plant my petunias in my borders or shall I wait in case we get more frost,? Thankyou .

[Brinjal]

Should be ok by now.

[SlackAlice]

I'd leave it until end of April. No idea where you are but I was quite surprised to get a frost a couple of days ago.

I'm in the Essex flatlands!

[starone]

I love petunias, one of my favourite flowers. Think I'll schedule a visit to the garden centre.

[rowanwitch]

I'd wait until May... or use protection at night like agrifleece

[maggiebee]

Know it's later in Scotland buy my dad was a time served gardener and always said the start of May was early enough for bedding plants as we could still get a frost in April. May be OK further south of course.

[maggiebee]

"but" NOT "buy"

[Robinia]

I agree with waiting...I never put in tender plants until after the second week in May. I had a thin layer of ice on the birdbaths yesterday morning!

[gleno1]

Thankyou all for your replies ,it is much appreciated .

[horseshoes]

I'm not chancing it just yet - we had a VERY heavy frost on Sunday.

[coccinelle]

Think they'd be much happier left in the greenhouse; I'm pricking out today and it's nicer in there than outside....

[rosyposy]

Our local garden centre here in the north east will not even SELL a bedding plant until the third week in May and have refused to do so for years. We had a bad frost two night ago so I wouldn't risk it gleno.

[diddlydo]

Definitely way too early - think ice on a bucket of water a couple of days ago and I'm in the south!

[gleno1]

Thankyou all for your replies ,i will wait for about a fortnight just to be on the safe side .