Flower
Gardening Tips
Gardening
Articles
Shrub
Roses - 02/27/07
How
to stop Rose soil sickness
03/09/07
 Do
you love flower gardening? Are you
dreaming of creating a stunning garden,
searching for the best flowers and
growing information?
To
get started on your perennial garden,
you need knowledge.
Planning
your garden is a way to avoid the
classic dilemma: wandering around
with the plants you've just bought,
wondering where the heck to put them.
When thinking about your flower garden,
you don't have to draw the entire
landscape on paper, showing where
every plant goes. When
makeing a drawing, it should generally
be a rough one to show the layout
of a bed and a basic planting plan.
Take some time to think about how
your flower garden should look and
what you would want your garden design
to do for your landscape.
When
you start gardening with perennials,
it's easy to think that all you have
to do is get your plants into the
ground, and with the exception of
weeding, watering and cutting back,
your garden will be done.
But
here's what really happens:
The
first year your new plants are underwhelming
– the clumps small, the flowers
sparse.
By
the second year, your perennials have
grown fuller and have more flowers.
But in the third season – watch
out – your plants look like
they're on steroids, and you look
like an accomplished gardener. After
that, many plants get bigger each
season, while the odd one confounds
you by doing a disappearing act. Responding
to the inevitable change is your challenge
as a flower gardener.
When
you're planning your flower garden,
there are many choices to make, some
purely aesthetic (such as match-making
plant combinations) and the rest horticultural
(what grows best in the conditions
you have).
The more closely you base your decisions
on meeting the needs of your plants
light requirements, soil, moisture
levels and so on - and on which plants
look good together, the more successful
your perennial garden will be.
Gardening
Articles
Shrub
Roses - 02/27/07
How
to stop Rose soil sickness
03/09/07
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