Time for a Flower Garden Tune-Up
Article by: Yvonne Cunnington
Creating a lush flower garden , Floral Arrangements from scratch takes time - many perennial plants , 5 Fengshui Ways to Increase Curb Appeal need a couple of years to grow , Gardening to showy sizes. So don't worry if it takes several seasons , Teak Patio Table - Why You Need One to get your flower garden , Outdoor Wood Furniture – Check the Wood Species Before Purchasing 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 , Teak Patio Table - Why You Need One design. Ask yourself , Watering Your Lawn the following questions - the answers should give you some ideas on which projects to do this spring:
- Are the flower , Gardens: They are Fragrant, Breathtaking— the Perfect Idea for More Outdoor Decor beds too narrow? A narrow bed , Grass Varieties isn't wide enough to show off layers of plants. , Wood Ticks If you have a skinny bed , A Few Gardens Built By The Moghuls that can't be widened, between a hedge , Gardens: They are Fragrant, Breathtaking— the Perfect Idea for More Outdoor Decor and a walkway, for instance, fill it with low-growing ground cover plants , Wood Ticks of one or two kinds.
- Are the planting areas all over the place? Look at the entire yard, , Preaparing Your Plants For Winter not just the individual planting beds. , Life's a Beach--A Shore Theme in your Outdoor Space Try to link beds, , Grass Varieties 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 , Getting Rid of Standing Water in Your Yard if you put three of one type in a clump, rather than three different plants , Garden Etiquette - How To Act When In Another's Garden or three of the same plant , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (part 13) Oxygen in different locations. , Small Garden Design - Creating Illusions Of More Space Repetition of key plant , Viburnum Dilatatum 'Cardinal Candy' groups or a key color , Why Gardening is Better creates harmony and coherence. Add contrasts in texture and form - for example, bigger leaves next to fine ones, or spiky flowers , A Few Gardens Built By The Moghuls next to rounded and mounded ones.
- Have you screened eyesores? Treat the space around your house , Calla Lilies - Flowers for All Occasions as a garden, , Outdoor Wood Furniture – Check the Wood Species Before Purchasing not a yard. , Gardening Your backdrop should complement your plants. , Life's a Beach--A Shore Theme in your Outdoor Space Make storage sheds , Grass Varieties or garage , Basil - the Queen of Herbs walls into garden , You Can't Beat Perennials For Glorious Color All Season Long features (vine-covered trellises can hide ugly ones). Be sure to screen utilitarian necessities like the compost , No Dig Gardens - How to Build One pile, air-conditioning units, heat , How to Get Ideas for Designing Your Garden pumps, and so on with attractive fences or evergreen shrubs. , National Home Gardening Club
- Do the garden , Getting Rid of Standing Water in Your Yard and house , Grass Varieties complement each other? Look out the windows , Koi Pond Aeration to make sure the picture is pleasing from inside , Rock Gardens - A Different Kind of Garden the house , Gardens: They are Fragrant, Breathtaking— the Perfect Idea for More Outdoor Decor too.
- Do you have a focal point? You could be asking plants , Low Voltage Outdoor Lighting to do all the work. Perhaps the missing , Grass Varieties element is what garden , National Home ing Club designers call , Rock Gardens - A Different Kind of Garden a "focal point." Try adding a bird , Outdoor Wood Furniture – Check the Wood Species Before Purchasing bath, a sundial, an arbor, or a trellis. And of course no garden , Calla Lilies - Flowers for All Occasions is complete without an inviting bench, , Outdoor Sports Lighting or two.
 Yvonne Cunnington is an avid perennial , Teak Patio Table - Why You Need One gardener and the author of Clueless in the Garden: A Guide for the Horticulturally Helpless. For lots more perennial gardening , Life's a Beach--A Shore Theme in your Outdoor Space tips, visit her website http://www.flower-gardening-made-easy.com | For more garden , You Can't Beat Perennials For Glorious Color All Season Long design tips, , Gardening see http://www.flower-gardening-made-easy.com/gardendesign.html |
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