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A Flower Garden can be one of the most enjoyable part of your yard. Flowers are magic, irresistible to butterflies, bees, birds, and most of all to us humans. Flowers make the world more beautiful and smell good and can even make a sourpuss smile. The growing of flowers requires a lot of patience, love and care. Growing flowers is an art with a goal of creating a more beautiful world. Mother Nature loves to grow fabulous flowers. Living in Texas, Mother Nature does a beautiful job with the fields of spring flowers of bluebonnets, Indian paintbrushes and many other varieties. A flower garden can include diverse planting schemes and can also include growing fruits and vegetables in addition to flowers. Starting a flower garden can be a little overwhelming. If you are a novice, I suggest you look at magazines, the internet, and even the local bookstore for ideas. Pick out the flower gardens you like the best and take the picture to your local garden nursery and let the experts help you in setting up your flower garden. They can provide you with flowers that grow best in your area and climate. Another tip is to start with good dirt, amending a flower bed with good humus rich soil can make the different between having a beautiful garden and a ugly one. The extra expense is well worth it because your plants are healthier and will flourish and you wouldn't have to replacing plants that have died on you. Design Pointer for your Flower Garden
When planting a flower garden I found putting a few shrubs that are evergreen helps, it look good even in the winter time and add color and texture when your flowers are not blooming. Put small plants and fine textured leaves in front and center, and put tall plants and coarse texture in back and on the sides. This allows all the plants to be visible and it makes the leaf texture appears to be more uniform. Plant flowers in groups of three or five, odd numbers of plants look better. Planting flowers in a triangles also looks better than in straight lines.
Do you want everything flowering at the same time, or have something in bloom in spring, summer and fall? Some great choices for a flower garden are daylilies, roses, coreopsis, fall aster, lilies, coneflower, zinnias and begonias just to name a few. For my flower garden in Texas that gives me year around color I used poppy seeds and daffodil for spring color then the poppy dies off in early May and my daylilies, coreopsis, and I plant vinca from the nursery plus zinnias seeds to give me color in the summer. Fall I use fall aster and set pots of mums in my garden. Winter time I plant pansy and viola, so you see with the combination of annual and perennials I have color all year around. Flower gardens are one of the most rewarding and some time challenging project you can create in your yard. There is nothing more beautiful then a flower garden and it changes with each season. Remember to put your flower garden in a place where you can see it and enjoy it everyday. A nice bench in the flower garden is always nice to set back and enjoy your fruit of your labor. Remember to bookmark us for: Flower GardenBon Apatite! Enjoy your Flower Garden to your hearts content! |
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Flowers
are classified into three categories, annuals, perennials and biennials.
Annuals just last for one season and are great fillers for any garden. You
can start annuals from seeds or buy them at your local garden nursery.
Perennials are the most used in flower gardens and they come back for many
year. Biennials grow as a small plant during the year they are planted. In
the second year they will bloom and then perish. 
Varying
the height and shapes of plants and repeating will create rhythm. This makes
the landscape look like it works together. Flowering color and season is
also important in your garden design. Deciding what colors you want in your
garden is important. Reds and oranges are bold and create excitement, while
pinks and blues are more soothing. My favorite color combination is yellows
and purple with some blue to soften it and gives it a more relax feel.
I insert red or orange color to add interest and white flowers show up
better in the evening.