A trip to a garden centre will always give you a chance to see colourful flowers, and Otter Nurseries quite close to me, is a lovely one to visit. Outside, their displays are full of  planting ideas for all seasons,  with perennials, bulbs, trees and veggie plants on offer. I liked these.

Gentian, such lovely blue

Chrysanths flower prolifically

A grassy shelter

Yellow coneflowers/ echinacea

And inside the huge greenhouse, some exotics.

Young olive trees

Palms

New Guinea Impatiens

Much more affordable and able to withstand the English climate are these dear little Violas.

These are my favourite colours

Second choice

But they are all lovely

If you have loads of money and space,  

You could treat yourself to one of these, But I’ll have to just enjoy looking around! Do you have a favourite plant centre?