Planting annual and perennial flowers is an easy task, but with a few tips, your flowers will get off to a fast, healthy start that will reward you with bigger and better blooms down the road.It's best to plant when it's not especially hot or sunny. An overcast day when rain is forecast is ideal - your watering will get done for you.
Plant most annuals and perennials after your season's last frost date. While spring is the most popular time to plant, perennials often do fine if planted in early fall in the North; late fall in the South. Northern gardeners also have the luxury of planting throughout much of the summer as long as the day isn't especially hot - say, over 75 degrees.Steps
1. Success with flowers starts with choosing plants wisely. Look for short, stocky plants with few flowers and healthy, disease-free foliage. Avoid plants that are spindly, discolored, or wilted.
2. Knock the plant from its pot, keeping as much of the rootball as you can. If the plant's roots are heavily entwined, you may want to cut through them with a knife or pull them apart with your hand. This encourages them to spread out into the surrounding soil.
3. Although the flowers are pretty, it's best to pinch them off. Right now, the plant needs to put its energy into developing a good root system, not flowering. Pinching encourages healthier plants with more flowers later on
4. Prepare the bed with a spade, working in at least 1 inch of organic matter. (Each year, add compost, sphagnum peat moss, rotted manure, and other organic matter to keep the soil in good condition or to improve it. Or top a bed each year with a 2-inch layer of compost.) The soil should be loosened to a depth of at least 12 inches for annuals; 18 inches for perennials. Smooth the soil with a ground rake. When the bed is ready, plant the flowers at the same soil level they were in the container.
5. Mulch the bed with 1 to 3 inches of aged wood chips (fresh chips stunt growth), bark, grass clippings, pine needles or any other organic mulch. Gravel or stone tends to create too hot and dry a climate for most annuals and perennials. Mulch suppresses weeds, conserves moisture, and prevents many soil-borne diseases.
What is your vision of flowers in your garden? Do you ever reach the beautiful rainbow of colors you imagine?
The joy of planning a garden and working the soil is what makes us gardeners. So let's get the most out of our work, with garden plans and flower garden ideas based on the natural traits of all types of annual and perennials. These are ideas to keep in mind when laying out your garden beds and choosing plants.
Plant All Types of Blooms
for Constant Color
Design your garden plans with your flowers' natural blooming in mind. Plan well, and the result is a flower garden that blooms from spring to frost in vibrant color. Be sure to check your,planting zone so your flower garden plans include the best flowers for your climate. Here are some basic flower gardening tips to think about. First, let's look at the different types of flowers. Consider how long you want your flowers to survive in the garden. Your flower garden ideas will unfold from there!
Annual Flowers
Annual last one season and die out. This means these flowers have to be replanted every year. The advantage here is you can always change your garden plans the next year. Annual blooms provide a glorious array of color during their blooming season... no garden is complete without them!Use these blooms in gardens, and as edgings and borders. Mixing annual flowers in among perennials and bulbs fills the gaps in a garden while it extends the flowering time. Annuals are excellent flowers for hanging baskets too.
Perennial Flowers
Perennial flowers come back year after year. The advantage here is you never need to replant them. However, short of transplanting them all, you are "locked-in" to your original garden design. First, choose perennial flowers based on their tolerance of sun or shade. Aim your garden plans towards getting different perennials to bloom at a certain time and place in your garden. Also, choose the height of flowers for each spot in your garden... from low creepers to tall flowers reaching 6 to 10 feet.
Flower Bulbs
When you add bulbs to your flower garden plans, you get two great benefits (besides their spectacular blooms):· Flower bulbs come back each year, after being dormant over winter months. Many bulbs are hardy and reliable, meaning you can "forget" about them... and they'll present themselves sure enough every spring.
· Just like perennials, you can plant bulbs according to flowering times for a constant array of color. For a garden that blooms all season, plant a number of bulb types with succeeding flowering times.
Intersperse flower bulbs into several types of blooms, ground covers, shrubs, and along sidewalks or garden paths. Be creative and plant them in patterns!
Roses
A rose garden is the crowning jewel for most home gardeners. While no garden is complete without roses, a rose garden is complete in itself. No other flower has passed the tests of time and preference with such grace. A formal rose garden is breathtaking. A country home adorned by roses has incredible charm.Is there an art to growing a rose garden? Sure there is. But we make it easy, and show you step-by-step everything you'll ever need to know. You'll be surprised how fun roses can be when you learn rose gardening from us with our Easy Book series, Easy Rose Gardening.
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