With springtime finally here, the colors, the new growth – it’s time to get out and work in your flower gardens. Flowers are beautiful and inspiring and flower gardening is one of the most rewarding springtime activities you can take on.
Aside from the wonderful thrill of allowing yourself to rediscover your favorite hobby year after year, there’s so much you can do with your flower gardens to enhance the aesthetic of your home. By experimenting with new flower garden designs every year, you can ensure that you will never, ever be bored. But where do you get your flower garden ideas?
The first step is to make some difficult decisions… what kind of flower gardens are you most interested in? What kind of flowers are best suited to your climate region? Are you going to make a yearly hobby of flower gardening – then you might want to look into annuals. Annuals live for only one season, but this will give you the opportunity to really get your hands dirty and try some new flower garden ideas every year.
Or, are you more of a set-it-and-forget-it sort of person, in which case you may want to think about perennials, which will survive through the winter and return again in the summertime.
Flower garden designs are as diverse as the flowers themselves. Some people prefer flower gardens with a mix of different heights, colors, and flower varieties, which will give the garden the look of wild plants, as if your garden was actually a meadow. To achieve more of a stepping stone style many people plan so that shorter flowers are planted in front of taller flowers in their flower gardens. Really, this is all personal preference, though. Regardless of where you get your flower garden ideas, just have fun with it – get outside and enjoy the springtime air.
Flower gardening supplies – seed and tools can be ordered via catalogue with relative ease or bought from your local nursery. Transplanting flowers bought from a local nursery is a popular way to build up flower gardens with even less work. Flower gardens, like all growing things, need space to grow – be sure to allow enough space between your plants and flowers. Planting is the easiest part. Seeds can be sprinkled on the ground or earth.
Transplants require a little bit more prep; firt dig a hold just bigger than the flower, then pull the container off, and set the flower in the hole – make sure the flower is right side up. Finish by covering it with loose soil (pack it in) and watering. Now that we’ve planted our flower gardens, the hardest part of the job is over.
Maintaining our flower gardens is even easier than planting them. Applying a bag of fertilizer early on in the spring is a great idea. This will ensure your hard work will pay off. Additionally, as flowers begin to die, make sure to cut them off this will ensure younger flowers and the plant itself a greater longevity.
You’ll save your flower gardens some additional work in the next season by removing the detritus and spreading items like peat moss or compost, which are powerful organic nutrients to plants and flowers. When applying fertilizer, it’s a good idea to rake it into the earth, but be careful; If you have perennials be sure not to harm the roots in the process.
Flower gardening is simple and rewarding. Tending to flower gardens are peoples way of communing with nature in a suburban or urban sprawl. You’ll be surprised how the simple act of planning your flower garden designs will put you in a sense of instant calm. And seeing your flower garden ideas bloom into the rich tapestry of the season will make it all worthwhile. Enjoy your flower gardens this spring season!
