No flower garden is ever truly finished. The charm of a
flower garden is the fact that it changes month by month, giving you new blooms to appreciate as spring moves into fall. The trick is to arrange your plants so that you will have continuous color all season long. In this section we will concern ourselves with the two type of flowering plants Annuals and perennials. Roses are covered in a whole other section here
Perennials
Perennials are the backbone of the flower garden because they're the plants with staying power. Their leaves die back as winter approaches, but with luck, the following spring, they come back. Some plants are short-lived, but old favorites like daylilies, hostas and peonies can thrive for decades.
Annuals
Annuals are the plant world's equivalent of a summer romance. "Live fast and die young" applies here, as true annuals move through their short life cycle - growing, flowering, setting seed, and dying off all in just one season
Many annuals combine well with perennials and are good at filling gaps when perennials are still small.
Preparation
Before you start designing
flower beds, you should answer
a few questions:
- How much time do you want
to spend maintaining your
garden?
- What type of edges do I
want for my flower beds?
- How much yard or grass do
I want left in my yard?
- What color schemes do I
want in my yard?
- Are there any areas in my
yard where nothing seems to
grow?
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