Whether you are a gardening novice or an experienced home gardener with seriously green fingers - anyone can enjoy these stunning flowers over the festive season if you get to work now. There is a lot to be planting in the Autumn to prepare for next spring, from snowdrops and daffodils to tulips and alliums - the bulbs we plant at this time of year will provide us with some much-needed cheer after the winter is finally over and they fill our gardens or balconies with colour. However, not many things you plant right now will bloom before Christmas - except this recommendation from leading gardening expert Monty Don .
If you plant this particular flower now, you will be blessed with some gorgeously delicate flowers during the Christmas season, that will seriously add some extra festive cheer to the proceedings. On his website, the gardening expert explains that this is the perfect time of year to plant some paperwhites to ensure they are ready for Christmas. "Paperwhite daffodils, narcissi papyraceus, will be flowering for Christmas if you plant them at the beginning of November.
"Unlike most daffodils, it is native to the Mediterranean and do not require a period of vernalisation - or cold - to induce flowering," he explains. Normally, when we plant daffodils at this time of year, or other flowers like tulips, they need the cold, frosty period that we are about to go through to grow next year, but because we can skip this step with paperwhites, you will be treated to these und.