Time for a Flower Garden Tune-Up
Article by: Yvonne Cunnington
Creating a lush flower garden , Natural Pond Filters - Let Nature Do the Hard Work! from scratch takes time - many perennial plants , US Flags need a couple of years to grow , Everybody Feng Shui Tonight - in the Garden to showy sizes. So don't worry if it takes several seasons , Using Garden Decor For a Complete Garden to get your flower garden , The Indoor : Plants that Clean the Air looking the way you'd want it to. That's perfectly normal.
This is a good time of year to take stock of your garden , Summer ing is All Weeding and Watering! design. Ask yourself , A Quick Guide To Yard Bridges the following questions - the answers should give you some ideas on which projects to do this spring:
- Are the flower , Making the Most of the Front of Your Home Using Wind Chimes beds too narrow? A narrow bed , Suet Facts and Tips isn't wide enough to show off layers of plants. , Bonsai Trees - Our Own Little Forest If you have a skinny bed , Potting Benches: Beautiful and Practical that can't be widened, between a hedge , Gardening With Climbing Roses and a walkway, for instance, fill it with low-growing ground cover plants , Finding the Right Landscaping Company of one or two kinds.
- Are the planting areas all over the place? Look at the entire yard, , Gardening With Climbing Roses not just the individual planting beds. , Caring for Grosfillex Resin Patio Furniture Try to link beds, , Choosing the Right Lawn Mower rather than having one here and another over there.
- Have you crammed in too many types of plants? You'll get more impact from perennials , Gardening During Hard Times or Emergencies - You Can Feed Yourself! if you put three of one type in a clump, rather than three different plants , Making the Most of the Front of Your Home Using Wind Chimes or three of the same plant , Using Garden Decor For a Complete Garden in different locations. , Introduction to Snow Blowers Repetition of key plant , How To Choose The Right Lawnmower For Your Garden Lawn groups or a key color , Choosing the Right Lawn Mower creates harmony and coherence. Add contrasts in texture and form - for example, bigger leaves next to fine ones, or spiky flowers , Bonsai Trees - Our Own Little Forest next to rounded and mounded ones.
- Have you screened eyesores? Treat the space around your house , Finding the Right Landscaping Company as a garden, , How to Read a Seed Catalog not a yard. , Secrets To Beautiful Shade Gardens Your backdrop should complement your plants. , Water Lilies - How and When to Divide and Fertilize Make storage sheds , A Quick Guide To Yard Bridges or garage , Using Garden Decor For a Complete Garden walls into garden , The Indoor : Plants that Clean the Air features (vine-covered trellises can hide ugly ones). Be sure to screen utilitarian necessities like the compost , US Flags pile, air-conditioning units, heat , How to Read a Seed Catalog pumps, and so on with attractive fences or evergreen shrubs. , Solar Residential Outdoor Lighting is Becoming the Product of Choice for Millions of Consumers
- Do the garden , Solar Residential Outdoor Lighting is Becoming the Product of Choice for Millions of Consumers and house , Feng Shui In the Garden complement each other? Look out the windows , Ticks to make sure the picture is pleasing from inside , Home for a Gnome? the house , Let The Season Come Alive: Enjoy The Outdoors With Great Patio Furniture For Your Home too.
- Do you have a focal point? You could be asking plants , Garden Room Boundaries... to do all the work. Perhaps the missing , Don't Roll that Lawn element is what garden , Caring for Grosfillex Resin Patio Furniture designers call , Mower Safety - Blood On The Blade! a "focal point." Try adding a bird , The Indoor Garden: Plants that Clean the Air bath, a sundial, an arbor, or a trellis. And of course no garden , How to Grow African Violets is complete without an inviting bench, , The Cure for Common Pool Stains or two.
 Yvonne Cunnington is an avid perennial , Natural Pond Filters - Let Nature Do the Hard Work! gardener and the author of Clueless in the Garden: A Guide for the Horticulturally Helpless. For lots more perennial gardening , Using Garden Decor For a Complete Garden tips, visit her website http://www.flower-gardening-made-easy.com | For more garden , Clematis Care design tips, , Worm Composting Bin see http://www.flower-gardening-made-easy.com/gardendesign.html |
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