How To Design My Flower Garden

Erin benzakein owner of floret flower farm.

How to design my flower garden. Later you can decide the plant types and their position in the garden based on their height flowering time and color. Walk around the bed. For instance if your home has a contemporary exterior you wouldn t want to go for the same flower setup as you would for a rustic theme.

Sketching out your choices on your design plan will help you visualize what your mature garden will eventually look like. Either way you get to make a sizable investment into the beautification of your flower garden by working on your exterior. View beyond your garden suggests johnsen.

If you re looking for ways to divide the garden see four ways. You can do this simply by placing plants or fencing to frame a distant rooftop or a neighbor s pine tree or crabapple. To get an idea of how your flower garden will fit into the rest of your landscape use a garden hose to outline the edges before you start digging.

If you re starting from scratch it s important to get to grips with the basics of garden design. Be honest with light moisture conditions and the topography know your soil. 9 choose perennials that have a mixture of colors shapes and foliage.

Layout of a flower garden largely depends on how big is the area. An important tip to ensure a successful flower garden is to do a soil test. Test if you ll be able to access plants in the middle or if you ll need to include a path.

Another easy method is to keep shrubs along the property border low you ll capture nearby and distant views plus your garden will appear larger. So yard space and total area of the flower beds should be considered first. Listen to mother nature to learn about your land s traits.