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When planning a flower garden, it’s essential to understand your USDA growing zone so you can select plants that will flourish in your location. Also think about whether you want your flower bed to be an eye-catching centerpiece of your landscape, or more subdued and complement other elements...
Thoughtful planning, carefully considered plant choices and well-prepared garden beds will produce the best results. Unfortunately, many a gardener’s enthusiastic spring efforts have turned into summer disappointment and burdensome maintenance chores. Planning We put bedding plants into prominently placed ...
And all perennial plants, shrubs and trees have a zone range assigned to them (look for it on the tag). You’ll want to make sure that your garden zone falls within that range. 8 |Pick Out Your perennial Garden Plants Finally, it’s time to choose the plants for your garden! Just ...
Expert flower garden designers know to incorporate seasonal plants in their plans, to provide something striking for viewers at all times of year. This requires doing your research on each plant’s bloom time and foliage color changing with each season....
Weeds and weeding your flower garden are part of maintaining your flower garden so keep that in mind when planning your flower garden - it won't grow by itself and will need some care. Planting- There are basic steps to planting flowers. First dig a hole that is wider but not deeper th...
manage florist through flower planting, research, processing and sales. Choose exquisite decorations to transform the flower shop, and build a garden town to show your designer talent. Open the garden shop, experience the charm of casual simulation games, and create your own unique dream home!
if you can afford it, go ahead and pay for a garden design plan you can follow. If this is the direction you want to take, this post probably isn’t for you. This post is for the DIY home gardener that doesn’t have the funds or chooses not to spend their money on landscape desi...
Spring is a good time to start planning a vegetable or flower garden. Here is some fun work to do before you are ready to put your first plants in the ground.* Consider a topic If you have not decided what you want to plant in your garden, you can use a topic to guide you. If...
When you’re planning a garden, it can be hard to make it interesting during all four seasons. This small city yard has had all of the grass replaced with flowers, and will give you lots of inspiration for creating a year round garden. ...