Flower Garden Ideas Nursery Landscaping Guide
Flower Garden Ideas For A Better Backyard
By Suzzie T Franklin
Flower garden ideas may include flower beds and a vegetable garden
with low maintenance requirements. The secret to your success
is a review of your options, preparation and knowing where to
place your growing flower and garden plants.
Look for a sunny area, away from trees. The soil should be well
draining, close to a source of water. If the soil has heavy clay,
seek to replace your soil, with a garden friendly soil.
Another essential element of your flower garden ideas, is a compost
bin to create compost to feed nutrients to your flowers and garden
plants. Allocate an area of your yard where you will place your
compost bin, to collect all your yard and kitchen waste, to convert
to compost.
Planting Your Flower And Vegetable Plants
Plantings should be kept moist during the early stages of development.
Lightly watering three or four times each week to ensure germination.
Plants that sway in the breeze and provide textural interest in
the winter were emphasized in the planting design.
While many of the plants act as kinetic sculpture, they are anchored
to the site by masses of sturdy structured plants, such as sedums.
Plants in a kitchen garden are usually those that are easy to
plant, maintain and harvest.
Innovative Flower Garden Design Ideas
Coming up with the right flower garden ideas is a difficult balancing
act. On the one hand, you want your flower garden to be innovative.
You don’t want the same bed of pink roses, low shrub border, and
small fountain with a stone figure kneeling angel that your neighbor
has.
You want something that will show that you are unique and different,
something that expresses your individuality. After all, why else
would you spend so much time planting a garden?
On the other hand, your flower garden ideas cant be too outlandish.
Let’s face it – the most innovative, adventurous flower
garden ideas tend to never get realized. Either they are too much
work to finish in one planting season, or else they are too exotic
to meet with the approval of a spouse or other family member.
It’s a right to daydream, but once you start up on a project
you should be reasonably certain that you can carry it through
to fruition.
Less Is More
That is why, when it comes to flower garden design ideas, less
is more. Don’t get me wrong – after you have been doing it for
a few years, you will have a better grasp of what you can and
can’t accomplish in the planting season.
Still, when you’re first starting off, you should keep your flower
garden idea pretty small and compact. It is very difficult to
express yourself through a more elaborate, more extravagant, and
more beautiful display than your neighbors.
An Elegant Sparse Flower Garden Design
Instead, try using a sparse design. Don’t plants huge banks of
flowers – plant a few flowers here and there, combined with some
ornamental pieces. That way, people will be struck by your elegance.
When I’m talking to new gardeners, I usually have a pretty simple
rule of thumb for them involving flower planting ideas: figure
out how much time you have, then, come up with a plan that should
take about half that long.
Everything always takes longer than you think it would – particularly
if you are new to something – so by saving a lot of extra time
just in case, you can ensure that your garden is completed while
it is still early spring. Once you have accomplished that, you
can add on some more flower garden ideas in the extra week or
two you have remaining.
After all, you don’t have to plan it all out at once. Just make
sure that you can get something done, and that what you get done
is something you can be proud of.
You can discuss your flower garden ideas with staff at the nursery
and find out if it can be done in a relatively short time, and
if someone can do it for you, so there is more time to do other
tasks in your yard.
Including A Centerpiece To Your Yard
You may decide, you need a fish pond as your centerpiece in your
backyard. You can arrange for a professional installer, to install
it for you. Rather than you doing all the hard work, the hard
work is done for you.
You may also consider including a water fountain near the fish
pond, so there is a continual supply of fresh water to the fish
pond. The combination of a fish pond and a water fountain, may
be the wow factor in your yard. Visitors to your home, may be
fascinated with your choice of centerpiece.
Every year, you can look at making changes to your flower garden
ideas.
About the Author:
Suzzie T Franklin has written a number of articles on flowers, gardening
and landscaping including
Plastic Flower Pot,
Bamboo Plants,
Zen Garden,
Wire Topiary Frames,
Planting Guide,
Flower Seeds,
Gardening Vegetable,
The Japanese Garden,
Bonsai Trees.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Little Known Gardening Facts....
What is the difference between annuals and perennials?
Both are, of course, plants but the difference
is in how long they last and how often you have to replant them.
Annuals must be replanted every year. Examples of annuals are
any type of vegetable, sunflowers and flowers such as violets.
Perennials are plants that will renew themselves. They include
trees, bulb plants such as lilies, tulips and include roses and
other hardy plants that go dormant that during the winter months.
Most ornamental grasses are considered to be perennials.
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