Busy Lizzie Double Athena Mixed - Double flowers in shades of pink, red and white - Buy 33 for PS11.99 or order 132 for PS23.98, Half-Price.
I don't think it was wise to use
busy Lizzies again this year.
RICH PICKINGS: Blackberries are ripe and getting ready to select POPULAR: The
Busy Lizzie has become one of the most important summer bedding plants in recent years
Here,
Busy Lizzie seed needs light, and a humid atmosphere.
A regular reader and previous category runner-up, her waterfall displays of coleus, begonias, marigolds and
busy lizzies are all raised from seed.
Busy Lizzie denied Tompkins, trainer of runner-up Royal Minstrel, a double when getting the better of a prolonged duel throughout the final three furlongs of the staying handicap.
By simply decorating your plant pots, you can make the most boring
Busy Lizzie look positively exotic.
Each child who entered received a free growing starter pack containing a
Busy Lizzie plant plug, a pot, compost, Baby Bio plant food plus instructions on how to care for their plant properly.
But this race over a mile and seven furlongs is sure to be run on testing ground, and gives punters some sort of opportunity, with only
Busy Lizzie looking a particularly worrying rival to the nap.
Busy Lizzie relished the near two-mile trip at Chester last time and can follow up over a similar trip on the opening day of the Western meeting at Ayr tomorrow.
QMy local garden centre has plug plants of summer bedding such as
busy lizzie and petunia.
Back home there are some fair betting races at each of today's domestic meetings, and
Busy Lizzie gets the nap vote in the White Friars Handicap at Chester (4.25).