This summer's best-buy patio plants | Homes and Property

This summer's best-buy patio plantsWhich? Gardening have tested 56 new container-plant varieties, and can now reveal their best-buy varieties that will add long-lasting colour all summerPots, baskets and window boxes filled with plants brighten up your home throughout summer

The patio plant trial

The best-buy container plants

Begonia 'Lemondrops'Begonia ‘Lemondrops’Begonia 'Helia' mixedBegonia 'Helia' MixedVerbena 'Aztec Blue Velvet'Verbena ‘Aztec Blue Velvet’Gazania Sunbather 'Sunset Lemon'Gazania Sunbather ‘Sunset Lemon’ & ‘ToptokaiVerbena Magelana 'Blue Eye'Verbena Magelana ‘Blue Eye’Begonia 'Pear Drop'Begonia ‘pear drop’Gazania Sunbather 'Toptokai' adore the sun and flower consistently well

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