As you look out over your garden, the idea of creating a beautiful garden can seem daunting. However, this simple 3-step technique teaches you how to create small gardens within a larger garden area.
1. Take a quick survey
Where do you want your garden to be? It should definitely be a place that is enjoyable for you.
For. Where do you sit at home? This is the likely place where your new home owners will sit too!
B. Is your backyard a kind of “grill with friends” patio? Then you want to create a nice flower-filled “picnic” spot.
vs. Is there a view of your patio? This can be a perfect place to put a small garden.
Next, you need to determine whether your garden will be formal or informal. Formal gardens tend to have flowers arranged in rows or other specific patterns. For example, formal rose gardens tend to be in rectangles with walkways in the middle. Informal gardens, on the other hand, try to appear more natural.
With informal gardens, you can organize your plants in:
For. Groups: a circular group of three or more plants
B. Drift: an elongated grouping of plants.
2. What will grow?
Now look critically at your proposed venue. How much sun does this area get? If it is in full sun, be sure to choose flowers in full sun. The same goes for partial shade and shadow. Be sure to only choose plants that grow well in your hardiness zone.
Tip: For ‘beginning gardeners’, test your flower garden in full morning sun and partial afternoon shade. This is usually the easiest type of garden area to keep blooming.
Once you know your hardiness zone, you will need to decide whether you want annuals or perennials.
Annuals complete their life cycle in one growing season. The seed germinates in the spring, the plant grows, blooms, produces seed, and then dies. They are beautifully colored decorative plants and flowers often used in borders, pots, planters, and at the bases of trees.
Perennials live more than one growing season and return each year. There are two types of perennials. Herbaceous perennials generally die to the ground at the end of the growing season, but send out new shoots the following spring. Woody perennials, like trees and shrubs, do not die down to the ground, but instead get bigger each year.
So which one is better? Annual? Perennials?
Why choose ??? They are both wonderful and trying to determine which is the best is like comparing apples and oranges. Both have their unique advantages and characteristics that will make your garden beautiful.
Annuals typically bloom from early spring to late fall, providing an abundant variety of colors for the entire growing season. Replanting them every year seems like a small price to pay for their beauty!
For. Popular annual flowers include petunias, marigolds, zinnias, and impatiens.
B. If you’re looking for something a little more exotic than these traditional bedding plants, try spider flower (Cleome), gazania, vinca (Catharanthus), and lisianthus (Eustoma).
c) Some annuals are grown for their attractive foliage rather than their flowers, such as coleus, Jose’s fur, and mountain snow.
D. You can add a little edible interest with ornamental peppers, flowering cabbage, and okra.
Tip: When selecting annuals for your flower beds, remember that the most interesting combinations come from mixing plant sizes and shapes. Flowers and foliage also offer a variety of sizes, shapes, and textures, and are effective when mixed.
Unlike annuals, perennials tend to have a short flowering time. One way to avoid this is to have several different perennials with different flowering periods in your garden. The colors, textures, and sizes available in perennials are endless.
For. Some of the more popular perennials include lilies, hostas, peonies, and garden mums.
B. For a spiky blue show, try the Burning Star (Liatris).
vs. For spectacular color at the end of the season, try the black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia) and purple coneflower (Echinacea).
Can’t decide whether to plant annuals or perennials? It is not necessary to choose one or the other. Annuals and perennials can be combined in your plantation design to get the best of both.
Tip: When designing your garden, keep in mind that bright and exciting colors make the garden appear smaller than it actually is. Cool shades, which are more soothing to the eye, will make your garden appear larger.
3. Think layers
Even the smallest flower gardens are prettier when layers of flowers and grasses are used. The general rule of thumb is that the tallest plants should be towards the back of the garden and the smallest plants should be towards the front. This is definitely true if the garden will only be viewed from one point of reference.
Island beds, those that will be viewed from multiple sides, generally have their tall plants in the center and the smaller plants towards the outer edge.
Tip: When designing your garden, plant the center of the container first. Then work towards the outer edges.
A general plan may include plants that are less than 1 foot tall in the front third of the bed, plants that are more than 3 feet tall in the back third of the bed, and plants that are 1 to 3 feet tall in the middle third. from the bed. bed. Please note that this is just a general rule of thumb. It is not necessary to plant all tall plants in a row or all small plants in a row. You can bring some of the taller plants forward and plant some of the shorter plants further back to create a more varied scene.
Tip: To create a smooth gradation of heights, the tallest plants should not measure more than two-thirds of the width of the bed, or half the width of the bed in the case of island beds.
That is all. Plan 1, 2, 3 to create a flower bed. All that’s left is to go to daycare and put in a little effort! Good luck and happy planting!
