Tips for your lovely flower garden

Here’s some tips that I’ve found on various sites that will help you create or tend to your flower gardens with ease:

When planning your flower garden, follow the rules of painting using complementary colors or shades of one colour to create a balanced looking garden.

Flower gardens, or any type of garden really, look much more attractive when plants -annuals, perennials, shrubs and grasses are planted in groups of odd numbers.

Regularly maintain your flower garden and other plants on your property by pruning or trimming shrubs to maintain good shape – even in the winter, and dead head your flowers which will not only make your garden more attractive but in many cases will promote the production of more blooms.

When planting flowers under trees make sure that the plants do well in shade, and since trees roots often cause the ground to be drier under a tree make sure the plants are drought tolerant as well.

You also want to avoid damaging the roots of shrubs or trees when digging near them to plant flowers or other plants. dig small separate holes for each new plant.

Try not to put new plants where they will damage existing structures- such as a heavy vine that you want to grow on a fence – but that will end up getting so heavy that it will eventually damage the fence.

Flower and other types of gardens should be planted in a way so that they drain away from your home. You don’t want extra water gathering under the ground and coming back to damage your foundation.

The use of drip irrigation systems in garden beds or in individual plant pots can save water and keep a plant evenly watered.

Water in the early morning, or in the late afternoon when it’s cooler and when the sun is not shinning directly on your plants to help conserve the water you are using and avoid quick evaporation.

Plant perennials and annuals in your garden that attract birds and other wildlife that will prey on insect pests in your garden.