How To Plant Beautiful Flowers Year Around

Building a Garden with Flowering Shrubs & Beautiful Flowers

It’s always helpful to use a planner to watch your garden’s growth and to keep track of what is growing each season. By recording the seeds you planted, you can see which plants are faring well and know which ones are in bloom. Secondly, you will need to study the appropriate flowers in your area. What grows in Southern Georgia isn’t necessarily going to grow well in Wisconsin. Utilize a combination of hardy perennial wild flower seeds, annuals, and container plantings to add color and life to your garden. For cooler regions, look to foliage for added color and dimension to the garden. We may not think of lush greenery as interesting but when it’s cooler outside with no spring color, that lush green can add life to our home. Another trick is to ensure the beauty of the garden by planting at least two items that will grow together in harmony. You don’t want one plant to overpower another but to rather be gracious roommates.

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Beautiful Flowers for Your Garden Planters and Flower Beds

Always be sure that your garden area is filled with plants that will do well with the amount of sun and shade your area provides. Our next suggestion is to incorporate plants that are native to your area, it promotes healthy support of local plants and foliage so that they continue to thrive. Those of us working closely with the land can respect the importance of supporting the growth of the natives! A few suggestions for your year round garden include:

Spring Flowers Varieties 

• Pansy
• Tulip
• Peony
• Snowdrop
• Daffodil
• Crocus
• Hellebore
• Grape Hyacinth

Summer Blooms

• Coneflower
• Zinnia
• Bee Balm
• Black-Eyed Susan
• Hydrangea
• Guara
• Nasturtium
• Verbena
• Marigold
• Hibiscus

These summer gardening tips will help you have beautiful flowers!

Fall Flower Types

• Asters
• Mums
• Begonia
• Sumac
• Beautyberry
• Goldenrod
• Russian Sage

Winter Landscaping and Flower Types

• Camellia
• Holly
• Firethorn
• Chokeberry
• Winter Jasmine
• Cotoneaster
• Nandina

Read our best winter gardening tips here. 

The Best Gardening Tips for Container Plants

If you wish to utilize containers in your gardening, you can plant just about anything in those to spruce up your window boxes and decorative containers. Some plants really should be in containers, such as any kind of mint, because of their invasive nature. There is nothing worse than planting an invasive plant in the ground and having it completely take over your garden. Here are out top picks for your containers:

Beautiful Flowers for the Spring

o  Cineraria

o  Oxalis

o  Heuchera

o  Edibles (Oregano, sage, thyme, mint, parsley, lemon balm)

Summer Flowers for Container Gardens

• Ageratum
• Coleus
• Double Impatiens
• Ivy
• Petunias

Fall Flowers

• African Daisy
• Snapdragon
• Twinspur
• Sweet Alyssum
• Coral Bells

Sunflowers make gorgeous container flowers!

Winter

• Yucca
• Japanese Pieris
• Boxwood
• Japanese Sedge

Year round gardening is possible with a little know-how and some tenacity. Be sure to consult your local gardening center to help with finding the right plants for your area. Even picking out the right sunflower will ensure a successful and beautiful garden that will brighten your home no matter what season you are in. Gardening in all seasons will teach you plenty about your property and how to care for the soil in ways that will ensure healthy gardening in years to come.

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Are you wanting fall colors in your outdoor home? If so, now is the perfect time to start thinking of your fall garden. August is the right month to tackle your yard, turning it into a wonderful space to play, unwind, and entertain. If you can take care of your garden now, you will have a yard with full of color and texture.

Image via: Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLC

To plan for your garden, you just have to know about a few things like the size of your garden, the amount of moisture and sun your space gets, and one or two other simple garden conditions.

When to Plant

The sowing of late season plants depends on the time that the plants take to reach a reasonable blooming or harvest size. You have to take notes of the first frost date in your region and the days to bloom/harvest imprinted on the back of each seed packet. Try to sow the seeds at a time that you can have the bloom or harvest before the frost comes.

Image via: Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture

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Prepare the Lawn

As winter will show up after the autumn, your late summer gardening plan should include ideas for the cooler days and nights ahead. If you already have an established lawn, use higher dose of nitrogen fertilizer but keep the nitrogen level low if you want to set up a new lawn by sowing seeds. This time is excellent for establishing perennial ryegrass, bluegrass, and fescue.

Tips for Having a Good Bloom

If you like to set up a flower garden, you must want to have a good bloom of your planted flowers. Sometimes, flowers like hyacinths and tulips come up short because they need more chill time. For a beautiful and full-grown display after planting, refrigerate flower bulbs. Buy bulbs now and keep them in your refrigerator’s vegetables bin for minimum six to eight weeks. Plant them afterwards and you will see multitude of blooms in your garden.

Image via: Eslem Garden

Plan for Vegetables

Fresh peas, spinach, and lettuce are not just spring vegetables. You can plant a round of these favorites when temperatures become cool in late summer. The vegetables that you can try during fall are tomato, spinach, snow pea, cabbage, carrot, parsley, lettuce, bell pepper, green bean, broccoli, dill, cilantro, and other favorite items. Like summer, there is no or little possibility of rain during autumn. So, choose vegetables that grow well even without having plenty of water.

Consider Non-Flowering Plants

Many plants are there that bloom either in the late summer or in the fall. However, non-flowering plants can be too a great addition to your late summer garden. Some ornamental grasses are there that will definitely be an excellent choice for your fall garden. In fact, non-flowering plants will show you that you can enjoy lots of beautiful colors with plants that do not have flowers.

Image via: The Big Plant Nursery

If you look closely, you will notice that the looks of your garden change from season to season. It may look great in one season but becomes dull in another. Only proper planning and its execution can help you maintaining the looks of your garden throughout the year.

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