Plants Have a Mind of Their Own

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3:14 pm by webmann in backyard gardening

Plants are a lot cleverer than we might think.

If you are aware of the changes that occur with the plants in the garden, you can sometimes predict everything from the coming weather to the changing of the seasons without ever having to consult the weather charts or your diary.

The weather can, however trick flowers into ‘thinking’ there has been a change in the weather or even the season.

This can be seen when there is unseasonal hot weather after a cold snap in winter. Plants can ‘assume’ that it is the start of Spring and bulbs will start flowering.

In recent years many areas throughout the world have experienced unseasonal weather and extremes of weather and this has caused many problems for people growing crops.

Creating sheltered areas on your property can help you to control your plants and ensure that you get the flowers or fruits when you expect them to be ready. This will also help you to reduce damage that might occur from conditions such as hail or heavy rain.

Shading plants can also create a false reduction in daylight hours, which will affect the plants growth patterns as they measure the seasons by the amount of daylight.

Hothouses can create a false environment and this can be beneficial if you want to produce plants throughout the year for flowers or fruit.

Temperature can be adjusted to control the plant growth and to a lesser extent this can also be done by the placement of your plants in various different positions on your property depending on their exposure to sunlight, wind, cold and rain.

Designing your garden by taking into account all these factors will allow you to read your plants mind in advance, allowing you to get what you want, when you want from your garden.

It will allow you to plan the progression of plants from one season to the next.