M&S launches bedding plants for bank holiday weekend…

Following feedback from green-fingered customers, M&S is launching bedding plants today especially for Easter weekend. Make the most of your garden, patio, balcony or window box with new range of seasonal British blooms, grown in Hampshire. Choose bright and beautiful Geranium, Lobelia, Petunia and Impatiens bedding plants at great value, £3.50 per pack, or spruce up your outdoor space with a Hydrangea pot for just £10. Just pick up alongside your M&S essentials when you do your weekly shop.

To help get the nation gardening at home, customers making a purchase at M&S Food stores will receive a free Little Garden seedling kit – with 12 varieties ranging from vegetables, to herbs and flowers (available while stocks last).
M&S is also inspiring parents and kids alike with new online gardening classes at marksandspencer.com and on Instagram and Facebook @marksandspencer. The series will be hosted by green-fingered guru and Blue Peter gardening presenter Lee Connelly, AKA The Skinny Jean Gardener.

The first fun-packed episode launched last week and provided quick and easy-to-follow lessons on how to grow plants, fruit and veg at home. Each week the masterclasses will focus on a different topic – from how to turn unwanted household objects into colourful plant palaces, to repotting and growing plants from seed and talking about nature and native wildlife. Lee will also host insightful Q&A’s to help and advise gardening beginners.

There’s also Little Garden quizzes to enjoy – Lee will host a ‘Super Saturday’ family quiz every week to get families together for some light-hearted fun. Put your gardening, plant and wildlife knowledge to the test with questions like: can carrots really help you see in the dark and how do you keep hedgehogs happy in the garden?