Flower Garden Ideas for You

Are you looking for some flower garden ideas to get your flower gardening plans started?

We're here to help you plant your first—or next—flower garden. Read on...

There's nothing like a garden of blooming flowers. Flowers can be beautiful, fragrant, and add a wide variety of colors to your landscape and backyard garden.

And if you plant the right kinds of flowers, flower gardening doesn't have to be difficult. Keep reading for some great flower garden ideas...

1. Always pay attention to the essentials.

When flower gardening, make sure your plants have an adequate supply of water, sunlight, and fertile soil. Any lack of these basic necessities will greatly affect the health of your flower garden. Water more frequently during dry spells.

When planting bulbs, make sure to bury them at the correct depth. When planting shrubs and perennials, make sure that you don't heap soil or mulch up around the stem. If you do, water will drain off instead of sinking in, and the stem could develop rot through overheating.

2. Mix and match perennial flowers with annuals.

This is a great flower garden idea! Why? Because... Perennial flower bulbs need not to be replanted each spring since they grow and bloom for several years... while annuals grow and bloom for only one season.

Mixing a few perennials with your annuals ensures that you will always have flowers blooming in your flower garden.

3. Deadhead to encourage more blossoms.

In flower gardening, deadheading is nothing more than snipping off the flower heads once they wilt. This will make the plant produce more flowers. Just make sure that you don't discard the deadhead in the flower garden or mildew and other plant disease will attack your plants.

4. Know the good from the bad bugs.

The following flower garden ideas will be ignored at your own peril. It's true that most garden insects do more good than harm. For example, butterflies, beetles and bees are known pollinators. They fertilize plants through unintentional transfer of pollen from one plant to another. 80% of flowering plants rely on insects for survival.

And, sowbugs and dung beetles together with fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms are necessary to help in the decomposition of dead plant material, thus enriching the soil and making more nutrients available to growing plants.

But there are some other insects, such as lacewings and dragonflies, that are natural predators of those insects that do the real damage, like aphids.

For true flower gardening success, an occasional application of liquid fertilizer when plants are flowering will keep them blooming for longer.

Always prune any dead or damaged branches. Fuchsias are particularly prone to snapping when you brush against them. The broken branch can be potted up to give you a new plant, so it won't be wasted.

So, there are a few flower garden ideas to get you started. Keep checking back here often, as we'll be adding to our flower gardening tips regularly.

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