December is the perfect time to ready your garden for the winter months while embracing the festive season. With Boma Garden Centre’s exclusive seasonal offerings and expert advice, your garden can thrive all winter. Here are our top tips to help you prepare:
1. Plant for Privacy and Winter Structure
Add structure and privacy to your garden with planters like the Mayfair Evergreen Screen Window Box, ideal for creating natural barriers in urban environments. With its lush greenery, this planter provides year-round coverage and aesthetic appeal.
2. Showcase Festive Colors with Ready-Made Planters
Enhance your outdoor displays with Boma’s Cottage Grove Bowl, available in vibrant red, white, or purple cyclamen. This charming planter brings pops of color to patios, windowsills, and entranceways. For more variety, consider the Hampstead Haven Window Box, offered in the same festive colors and perfect for welcoming guests during the holiday season.
3. Elevate Your Garden with Prestigious Designs
Upgrade your patio with the Harrington Heritage Planter, featuring a glazed blue terracotta pot filled with a mix of evergreen plants. For something truly sophisticated, the Belgravia Collection of Taxus Balls and Skimmia is the ultimate choice, offering an elevated, timeless look for patios and larger outdoor spaces.
4. Focus on Compact Beauty
Small spaces benefit from versatile arrangements like Wilma’s Heritage Box, a compact yet striking planter available in red, white, and purple tones. If you’re seeking bold elegance, Our Tudor Trio Cyclamen Sets are perfect, combining stunning colors and textures to liven up small corners.
5. Prepare for Frosty Weather
Protect tender perennials and container plants from frost. Wrap pots in hessian or fleece, and apply mulch around the base of plants to insulate roots.
6. Prune for Health and Growth
With deciduous plants now dormant, December is an excellent time to prune trees and shrubs. This helps shape plants and encourage healthy regrowth in spring.
7. Maintain Garden Accessories
Clean and store tools, water features, and garden furniture before frost sets in. This ensures they are ready for use when the growing season returns.
8. Plant winter plants in planters for easy relocation
Planting winter plants like hellebore, camellia, skimmia, heuchera, cordyline, bay trees, conifers, and other evergreens is an excellent way to ensure your garden remains vibrant and inviting throughout the colder months. These hardy plants thrive in the winter season, offering lush greenery, colorful blooms, and structural beauty. When paired with planters, they create instant displays perfect for patios, doorways, and balconies. At Boma Garden Centre, we offer the largest selection of handmade terracotta planters in North London, providing a variety of styles and sizes to suit your needs. These planters not only enhance the aesthetic appeal of your winter arrangements but also provide excellent insulation for plant roots, ensuring they stay protected during frosty weather. Whether you’re looking for a bold statement piece or something subtle and elegant, our terracotta planters combined with winter plants are a timeless addition to any outdoor space.
9. Plan for Next Season
It's not too late to plant bulbs for spring. Use the quieter gardening period to sketch plans for new garden projects. Whether it’s redesigning your flowerbeds or investing in stunning planters like the Hampstead Haven or Mayfair Evergreen Screen Window Box, now is the time to envision your dream garden.
Exclusive Winter Planters for Instant Displays
Boma Garden Centre is renowned for its ready-made planters, which are carefully crafted to offer instant displays that last through the festive season and well into the new year. The garden centre has a large selection of seasonal planters including evergreen bay trees, olive trees, with grasses, trailing plants, shrubs and evergreens, for perfect outdoor displays as well as indoor plant and herb collections.
A brief selection of highlights include:
• Cottage Grove Bowl: Bright cyclamen in white, purple, or red, ideal for tables or patios.
• Mayfair Evergreen Screen Window Box: Designed for urban privacy with stylish evergreen plants.
• Wilma’s Heritage Box: A compact, festive design in your choice of red, white, or purple.
• Hampstead Haven Window Box: Perfect for adding greenery to any windowsill or balcony.
• Harrington Heritage Planter: A striking blue glazed pot filled with premium plants for a touch of luxury.
• The Belgravia Collection: Taxus Balls and Skimmia for those seeking an upscale, elegant patio upgrade.
• Tudor Trio Cyclamen Sets: Add festive charm with these delightful, color-coordinated planters.
Shop Early Before the Holidays
Please note that Boma Garden Centre will be closing for the holiday season, so visit us in the first three weeks of December to secure your Christmas trees, festive planters, and garden essentials. Don’t miss out on our exclusive collections and promotions to make this winter your most beautiful yet!
