Flower Blooming Tips for your Garden
Here we present a few special flower gardening tips to help you be a more effective and creative flower gardener. Have fun!
-- Follow the rules of painting: use complementary colors or tints and shades of one color. Check out this website from Brown University on color theory.
-- Planting large groups of contrasting flowers next to each other can create a spectacular effect.
-- Plant shrubs and individual ornamental grasses in groups of odd numbers. Planting odd numbers of these plants will balance out the visual aspects of your flower garden.
-- Don’t overwhelm a small space with a large number of plant species. Select just a few so your flower garden doesn’t look cluttered.
-- Take advantage of the special colors of the sunset and sunrise. Use colorful plants accordingly.
-- Consider plants with colorful flowers that will also produce tasty fruits. Cherry and other fruit trees can be a great addition to your flower garden.
-- Keep your flower garden properly maintained. Prune your trees and shrubs to maintain appealing shapes, even in the winter. Deadhead your flowers and cut back old, frayed growth.
-- Lawns are much easier to mow if they aren't broken up with a few flowers here and a few flowers there.
-- If you want to plant flowers under a tree, make sure the flowers will do well in the shade.
-- Choose climbing or vining flowers to grow near a trellis or garden arbor.
-- Be careful when planting flowers under a tree not to dig up any roots. Plant flowers under trees by digging a small separate hole for each plant.
-- Make sure to keep in mind the mature size of young trees and shrubs you plant. Otherwise it will be easy to plant them too close together.
-- Avoid putting new structures or plants where they will damage existing landscape features.
-- Plant in curves for better visual balance, not straight lines or perfect circles.
-- Make sure that your flower garden slopes away from your house.
-- Adding mulch to your finished flower garden will help hold moisture.In addition, deteriorating mulch will add organic matter to your soil. Some mulch, such as shredded bark, can be quite attractive.
-- Use drip irrigation systems to water individual plants and save water.
-- Never water on a windy day.
-- Water in the early morning or late afternoon to avoid evaporation.
-- Try introducing or attracting lady bugs, praying mantis, and the non-stinging Trichogramma wasp to your garden for natural pest control.
