A bouquet of flowers can brighten up your home. Likewise, a well
stocked flower garden can add brightness and color to your lawn
or garden. A well stocked flower garden can provide you with a
colorful bouquet for your table or shelf, or a gift to brighten
someone else's day.
First of all, you'll want a good location for your flower
garden. Most flowers usually need 6-8 hours of direct sunlight
every day, although there are some flowers that grow in more
shady areas. You'll need to match the flowers to the amount of
sunlight that the flower garden will receive. Your flower garden
should also be easily accessible for watering, weeding, and
cutting the flowers.
Annuals vs. Perennials
You'll need to decide whether you want to plant annuals or
perennials in your garden, or a mix of both. Annuals, such as
snapdragons, zinnias, and other flowers grow, bloom, and die off
in one growing season. Perennials on the other hand can grow and
bloom, year after year.
Fall Bulbs
Fall bulbs are those that are planted in the fall, such as
daffodils, tulips, and crocuses. These bulbs are planted in the
fall, and then grow and bloom early in the spring when the
weather starts to warm up. The giant flowering onion is another
good fall bulb, which is planted in the fall, and produces large
purple flowers from early spring to mid-summer.
Spring Bulbs
Spring bulbs are planted in the early spring. Some of them are
planted just before the last frost, while others are planted
after the last frost. Bulbs such as Gladiolus are spring bulbs,
meant to be planted as early as two weeks prior to the last
frost. These bulbs can be planted every two weeks to provide
flowers all summer. Spring bulbs produce flowers from the early
summer until the first frost in autumn.
Seeds
Flower seeds are readily available at your local garden center,
or even occasionally in your grocery store. Seeds can be a cheap
way of sowing a flower garden. Some seeds require that you start
them in containers indoors before moving them outside, and some
you can just start planting right in your flower garden. Just
follow the instructions on the seed package.
Plants
Your local garden center will have a wide range of flowering
plants that will do well in your area. If you want some instant
color for your flower garden, buy plants that are blooming, or
just about to bloom. Then every 2-4 weeks, you can go back to
the garden center, and select a few more flowers that are
blooming. This way, you'll have flowers blooming in your garden
for the entire growing season.
Once you've chosen your location for your garden, and the plants
that you want, you'll need to organize your garden. As you're
planting, keep in mind how big the plants will be when they're
full sized. You'll want the shorter plants in front, and the
taller plants in back. You'll also want to keep in mind the
colors of the flowers. You may want to group flowers of similar
colors together, or you may want to plant contrasting plants
near each other.
Growing cut flowers in your flower garden isn't difficult, but
it does take some thinking and planning, and of course a bit of
work. But the end result will be worth it. You'll have a
healthy, colorful flowerbed, and cut flowers for bouquets all
summer long.
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