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Flower Gardening

Flower gardening is becoming more and more popular every day.  Flowers can brighten everyone’s day, they smell nice, and are a great hobby.  Flower gardening is simple, inexpensive, and loads of fun.  Flowers can be grown for yard decoration, simply as a hobby, or even professionally.

There are some decisions that you have to be make before a flower gardening can be started.  You must decide if you want annuals that live for one season and must be replanted every year, or perennials that survive the winter and return again in the summer. You must decide what type of look you want before you begin planting.  For instance, mixing different heights, colors, and varieties of flowers together in a “wild-plant style” will give your garden a meadow look and can be very charming.  If short flowers are planted in the front of your garden and work up to the tallest flowers in the back you will have a “stepping stone style”.

When you buy you seeds or plants, pay attention to what kind of flowers thrive in your climate, the size the plants will grow to as well as the sun requirements. You can order your seeds or plants from catalogues or buy them from a nursery.  Most people will go to the nursery and buy actual flowers and then transplant them.  After you have prepared your garden area and bought flowers, it is a good idea to lay the flowers out in the bed to make sure you like the arrangement and that they will be spaced properly. One of the easiest processes in flower gardening is the planting/ if you have seeds just sprinkle them around in the flower bed.  For planting transplants dig a hole just bigger than the flower, pull the container off, and set the flower in the hole right side up.  Cover it with the loose soil and press down firmly, then water.

Maintaining a flower garden is even easier than planting one.  Although they might make it on their own, a bag of fertilizer applied in the early spring is a good idea. Just spread the fertilizer on top of the soil and when you water the fertilizer will be made available to the plants. Pinch back any blooms after they start to fade and keep them good and watered. To help save yourself work pulling weeds and to help retain moisture in the soil spread out organic nutrients like peat moss or compost.

Flower gardening is as easy as 1, 2, and 3: simply decide what to plant; plant it, and water!  Flower gardening gives anyone excellent reason to spend some  time outdoors and test out their green thumb.