Garden Flowers

When picking out flowering plants for your garden, you may want to consider color and size. Depending on the areas you have earmarked for your flower beds, you'll want to make sure you create a pleasing visual effect with different heights. If you have a thick edging like at the edge of a forest or around your house, you might want to have tall flowering plants of about 2 feet in the back (against the house) middle height plants of 1 foot or so in the middle and the smaller 6" plants in the front.

Your gardening plan should consider the color of the flowers as well. While a colorful garden looks wonderful, some colors like perhaps orange and purple do not look so good when placed right next to each other. Some people like to stick to 2 or 3 colors only. One of the houses I lived in had a garden of all white flowers that was there before I moved in. Some call this a moonlight garden and it really was quite striking.

No matter what flowering shrubs, plants or trees you pick for your garden, you'll want to put your own personality into it. Don't forget that you can accent your garden with flowers in planters and window boxes too. A water feature or pond can be a great place to have those water loving plants and flowers.

When planning out a flower garden, I sometimes find it is helpful to look through catalogs (Click here to order a Free Nature Hills Nursery Catalog) to pick out the kinds of flowering plants and trees that you want. They're pretty useful as they list the height and bloom time of the flowers so you can plan out your garden right from the catalog and then order up what you want!

Finally, a gardener needs to consider when his flowers will be blooming. Annuals bloom all year long and are great to have in the garden but die in winter and must be replaced each year (in colder climates). Perennials bloom for a short period of time but come up again every year. When planning the placement of perennials in your garden, you should make note of when they bloom – some in early spring, some in late spring, some early summer etc… Then you can place them evenly around the garden and even plan so that there is always flowers blooming all summer long!

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Enjoy some of your favorite plants year after year

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Shade Loving Perennials
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