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Planning and Laying Out a Flower Garden
from: Lawn and Garden MagicA flower garden adds a great deal of variety and beauty to any landscape. Many people find that laying out flower gardens is a very rewarding task. And, while it's possible to create a very attractive flower garden without planning it out first, it's much more efficient, and will save time and money in the long run, to make a plan. This will help you decide what type of flowers you would like to grow, and where you would like to setup your garden. When you're ready to lay the garden out, you have a good idea what you want to do and you won't have to constantly re-arrange things to adjust for variables you hadn't accounted for.
A good place to start when planning out your flower garden is how many annuals and how many perennials you want. Annuals last only one growing season, and therefore have to be replanted each year. Perennials appear yearly on their own. If you have all annuals, you can change your garden layout as you wish every year, and with perennials you have the same layout (unless you wish to transplant all of your flowers). However, it's possible to have a combination of the two, keeping the perennials where they are each year and varying the charm of the flower garden with a few different annuals in different placement.
Next, you should determine where you to place your flowers, taking into consideration the comparative heights of the plants, what time of the year they bloom, and what colors you will use. All of this will contribute to an aesthetically pleasing look for your flower garden — one that is orderly and beautiful rather than looking ill-planned with some plants that appear to be wildly out of place. Also, take into consideration when planning your flower garden: climate and sun exposure. Make sure all of the plants you choose for your garden will flourish in your region and that your garden is placed in a location that will allow the flowers to receive a proper amount of light.
After you've decided what will go in your garden, it's time to prepare the flowerbed. You should mark of the dimensions of your proposed garden carefully. Using a garden hose to mark the boundaries is advisable, as it's heavy and will stay in place, but it also provides the flexibility needed to tweak the proposed shape of your garden. After you've determined your boundaries, you need to strip the enclosed area down to the topsoil. This can be done using a shovel for smaller gardens and a sod cutter for the larger sections.
Once you get down to the topsoil, you should loosen the dirt by prying up a section with a shovel and then turning over the dirt. This loosens the soil and provides a good place for flower roots to establish themselves. You can make improvements to the soil but adding organic materials such as peat moss, mulch, compost or manure. You should probably also roto-till the area to better mix the soil amendments in with the original soil. Next, use a rake to smooth out the soil without packing it down. Create your border with plastic edging, concrete, stones or by digging around the edges, angling the soil down and creating a gap between flower garden and lawn.
Once you've prepared the bed for the garden, purchase the flowers you'd like to plant. Seeds are less expensive, but you won't be able to see the final result until they spring up. If you purchase flowers in containers, set the containers, with their plants, in the places in the garden that they'll inhabit, which will give you an idea of what the garden will look like. If you need to move the flowers around for greater attractiveness, it's simply a matter of moving the pot around until the garden looks the way you want it to. Finally, once you've settled where everything will be placed, begin removing the flowers from their containers and placing them into the ground, beginning from the back and working towards the front.
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