Planting in Gravely Soil of Raised Flower Bed – Do We Need to Remove Stones or Improve Soil? Plus, Best Summer Flowers Recommendations

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added a photo of the start of planting for you all
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Gardening help please! (never gardened before so please be nice)
we have a raised flower bed in are garden, the soil is very gravley, can we plant into this? Or do we need to remove the stones? Or layer better soil? And which flowers will be best for summer
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We have just had the same put in literally no idea what I’m doing either been told need top soil over the top but I don’t know lol 😂 so following for advice.
 
@bumbletree well whatever you put in yours be prepared for a few squashed ones 😅 I spot a hoop 🏀 my son plays basketball he plays in the league and practices at home I've many a squashed flower 🙄🙈🤣 good luck ! x
 
@shepherd477 fingers crossed! keep well watered. You have loads of space to add some bigger perennials at the back like salvia, hydrangea, verbena, heleniums, geum etc if you wanted.
 
I would put good compost in the hole around the plant when you plant it. I would bark over the top as well to make it look nicer once you've planted
 
You can buy topsoil by the bag or a big dumpy bag and mix it in. You could use weed control fabric and plant through that to help retain water and reduce weeds.
Do you want to grow flowers/shrubs or veg?
 
What a great bed. You don’t need to remove the stones. It will suit plants that like drainage. You can always mulch the top with well rotted manure (not fresh unless you want to kill everything, it needs at least a year of rotting), or gather fallen leaves in autumn that will break down over the winter, suppress weeds but add nutrients and water retaining qualities to the soil, if that’s required. Good luck. 🙂 I hope you enjoy your flowers.
 
You can likely get well rotted manure locally. If you post on your local Facebook page and ask if any stables nearby have any to collect for free.
 
Im not a pro gardener but i have planted quite a range of flowers but the ones thats have grew the best is violas buy compost and put a layer of it down ontop. I have found the ones froom the garden centre have grew nicer than supermarket ones
 
Put in something that will stay all year and flower seasonally that you can then plant annual flowers around.
Maybe things like rhododendron / camelia, hydrangeas. They all flower at different times of the year so will start in March with a Camelia then the rhoda followed by the hydrangea.
Then you can plant things like begonias, petunias poppys, all around the base. Maybe even put in some daffodil, tulip, bluebell bulbs so next spring the garden will wake with colour early with the camelia, then by summer pop your seasonals around xx
 
We also have bright red tall lucifers (crocosmia) which don’t need any maintaining they just come up every year on their own and look gorgeous and tall Dhalia flower around Sept so be a wash with colour all year round haha x
 
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