Flower Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide

Flower Garden To Improve Your Backyard

By Suzzie T Franklin

Flower garden in your yard is dependant on available space. If you have a large yard, you may include a large variety of flowers with a large range of fruit, vegetables and herbs to feed your family. The growing plants need lots of sun, a well draining soil with plenty of nutrients.

You can use composting to feed natural nutrients to the growing plants. Composting is easy with a compost pile or composting bins. You can also purchase organic compost from a nursery or garden center.

If your space for a flower garden area is rather limited, then you can think about the plants you and your family need the most. If you want to feed your family garden fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs, then the garden will have more of these plants, than flowering plants.

A Beautiful Flower Garden

No matter if your garden space consists of a small, shady balcony or acres of land with every possible exposure, you can have a beautiful flower garden that gives your home a welcoming, cheerful look. Here are several flower garden ideas that are suited to a variety of gardening situations.

If you have just a small space, such as a balcony or condo entryway, potted and hanging plants are naturals. You need to consider the light requirements for the location, but there are dozens of flowers that will grow and bloom profusely. For shady spaces, consider fuchsias, begonias, campanulas, ferns and hostas.

Miniature And Tree Roses For The Summer Sun

For a sun-drenched location, miniature or tree roses, summer phlox, marigolds, marguerites and daisies are easy to grow and will provide a bright display all summer. If your balcony is subject to wind, consider screening the area as a windbreak.

Small scale flower garden ideas should include a variety of pot sizes and mixes of color. For example, the red to purple fuchsia spectrum contrasts beautifully with the light blue of campanulas, with hostas adding an exotic touch.

Painting Your Landscape With Different Flowers

With a larger space, your flower garden ideas really open up. Here, you can paint your landscape with wide swaths of a number of different flowers. For both sun and shade, you can mix annuals and perennials together for a longer season of color.

Dramatic effects can be achieved by planting a large section in marigolds, backed by a parallel planting of marguerites interspersed with yellow daisies. Stagger plant heights, with the shortest to the front. Lacy or feathery-leaved plants, such as gypsophilia and angelica should be placed behind fuller plants, so that you don't have a bare look that ruins your composition.

Spring Bulbs And Summer Plants

If you enjoy spring bulbs, such as daffodils or tulips, you can overplant with day lilies or any full-leaved, summer blooming plant. As the bulbs die down, your summer plants fill in the space attractively. For a quick-growing, magnificent display of annuals, try planting morning glory against fences or trellises. If you plant in early May, you'll have hundreds of blooms by mid-July.

If you love vases of cut flowers in your home, it takes just an 8' x 8' plot to have every vase in your house filled with flowers all summer long.

Use More Contrast In Smaller Spaces

You'll find that the most successful flower garden ideas grow out of your imagination, fueled by a picture book of annuals and perennials. You get to be the artist of this living landscape. Choose color combinations that you enjoy. The smaller the garden space, the more contrast should be used.

For example, a small porch with pots of bright orange and red marigolds is set off perfectly with pots of deep blue lobelia surrounding them. White and magenta flower shades will also fit into this color scheme, if space allows.

Maybe your neighbors will be asking you for your flower garden ideas by mid-summer. Have fun!

Organic Garden For Your Garden Fresh Fruit, Vegetables And Herbs

In the garden area, you can grow your organic fruit, vegetables and herbs to feed your family. You want to feed your soil with organic compost made in compost bins. If you do not have room for compost bins or compost pile in your yard, you can buy organic compost from your local nursery. These days, as awareness of pesticides on fruit has grown, more people are deciding to grow their own organic fruit and vegetables, to avoid chemical pesticides on their food.

With organic fruit, you can get that natural garden fresh taste of food. You can pick your fruit and vegetables and use them on your meals the same day. When you go to the shop, you do not know how many weeks or months the fruit has been in the fridge, transported from who knows where.

Growing your own fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers is your reward for maintaining your flower garden.

About the Author:
Suzzie T Franklin has written a number of articles on gardening and landscaping including White Flowers, Fruit Trees, Tole Painting, Lady Slipper Flower, Plastic Flower Pot, Zen Garden, Wire Topiary Frames, Window Bird Feeders, Planting Guide, Flower Seeds, Gardening Vegetable, Cherry Blossom.
Keep a lookout for more of his 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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