Planning Your Flower Gardening

Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 9:19 am

Image via WikipediaHave you noticed how flower gardening seems to be even more popular today than in the past? They can brighten up your day and everyone’s day. Most flowers smell nice, and it makes for a great hobby. Flower gardening is simple, inexpensive, loads of fun and very pleasing to the eyes. Flower gardening isn’t just for the professionals, people like you and me can really enjoy it, on any level.

A little planning goes a long way in flower gardening. We like to start planning what flowers we will add to our garden just about the time the new year starts. You must decide if you want annuals that live for one season and must be replanted every year, or perennials that survive the winter and return again in the spring. When buying and planting, pay attention to what kind of flowers thrive in your climate as well as the sun requirements.

When preparing for flowers in your backyard garden, you must decide what type of look you want before planting. For instance, mixing different heights, colors, and varieties of flowers together in a “wild-plant style” will give your garden a meadow look and can be very charming. If short flowers are planted in the front of your garden and work up to the tallest flowers in the back you will have a “stepping stone style”.

If for any reason you plant them in reverse order so that the tallest flowers are in the front you may not have given the smaller or short plants enough sun to survive.

Flower Gardening Catalogs

You can order seeds for flower gardening from catalogues or buy them from a nursery. Most people will go to the nursery and buy actual flowers and then transplant them. After you have prepared your garden area and bought flowers, it is a good idea to lay the flowers out in the bed to make sure you like the arrangement and that they will be spaced properly.
One of the easiest processes in flower gardening is the planting/ if you have seeds just sprinkle them around in the flower bed. For planting transplants dig a hole just bigger than the flower, pull the container off, and set the flower in the hole right side up. Cover it with the loose soil and press down firmly, then water.

Keep Up Maintenance on Your Flower Garden…

… is even easier than planting one.

Although they might make it on their own, a bag of fertilizer applied in the early spring is a good idea. Pinch back any blooms after they start to fade and keep them good and watered. To save yourself work during the next season of flower gardening, rid your garden of all debris and spread out organic nutrients like peat moss or compost. Don’t forget to turn over the soil to properly mix in the fertilizer and rake smooth when finished. If you have perennials planted be careful not to disturb their roots in this process.

Flower gardening is as easy as 1, 2, and 3: simply decide what to plant; plant it, and water, water, water! Flower gardening is undoubtedly gaining in popularity and gives anyone excellent reason to spend some outdoors and test out their green thumb.