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Building a flower garden is a great way to get outside, get some exercise and to enhance the beauty of your yard. It will increase the curb appeal of your home, and the flowers can be cut and brought inside for cheerful arrangements. There are a few details to keep in mind when building your flower garden. more »
Thomas Jefferson has been called America's greatest gardener. His Virginia mountaintop home, Monticello, covered about 5,000 acres. Jefferson had a lifelong interest in agriculture and botany. His famous gardens developed from plants brought from Europe, from expeditions that he sponsored and from native American plants. Bring the... more »
One way to enhance your yard is with a nice sunny flower garden. Typically, the flowers that grow well in a sunny location are colorful and vibrant. This makes it a perfect focal point to add curbside appeal and a welcoming ambiance to visitors. Flower gardens are one of the easiest and rewarding additions to beautify your property. more »
You've just moved into a new home and you would like to plant a flower garden, but you don't know anything about raising flowers. Don't worry. There are many flowers that are quite hardy and easy to grow. Before planting the flowers, however, here are things you should do to make your flower-gardening experience enjoyable in the long run. more »
Cottage flower gardens were first popular in England. People planted vegetables, fruits and herbs, as well as flowers. Over time more and more flowers were introduced, planted close together, intertwined and tightly spaced. The cottage flower garden quickly took on an overflowing beautiful appearance all its own. With so many flowers... more »
Planting a flower garden will enhance the landscape of your yard with brilliant color and...
Fresh flowers are a delightful way of bringing the beauty of a garden inside. Proper cutting...
Planting flower seeds offers the advantage of growing varieties that may not be available...
When you fill your garden with flowers and colors that you enjoy the most, you create a happy and welcoming place where you can spend many... more »
If the idea of a well-tended, intellectual garden appeals to you, consider adding a French flower garden to your property. Eloquent expanses of... more »
While everyone enjoys the natural beauty of a flower garden, not everyone has the time or money for constant upkeep. A rustic flower garden can be... more »
Flower gardening is a very popular outdoor hobby. It's a lot of fun, and most people who start get hooked, making their gardens bigger and bigger... more »
If you have a spot in your yard where the grass just won't grow, stop putting grass seed down, and try to make a small flower bed rock garden... more »
Flowers are available for purchase as potted plants, bulbs or seeds. Looking at a live plant makes it easy to visualize a lush, green garden... more »
Amateur gardeners tend to overlook the easiest type of garden to plant and that is the perennial flower garden. While annual plants require... more »
A flower garden is a general term for any garden where flowers are grown for decorative purposes. Because flowers bloom at varying times of the year, and some plants are annual, dying each winter, the design of flower gardens can take into consideration to maintain a sequence of bloom and even of consistent color combinations, through varying seasons.
Flower color is an important feature of both the herbaceous border and the mixed border that includes shrubs as well as herbaceous plants, and of bedding-out schemes limited to colorful annuals. Flower gardens are sometimes tied in function to other kinds of gardens, like knot gardens or herb gardens, many herbs also having decorative function, and some decorative flowers being edible.
One simpler alternative to the designed flower garden is the "wildflower" seed mix, with assortments of seeds which will create a bed that contains flowers of various blooming seasons, so that some portion of them should always be in bloom. The best mixtures even include combinations of perennial and biennials, which may not bloom until the following year, and also annuals that are "self-seeding", so they will return, creating a permanent flowerbed.
Another, even more recent trend is the "flower garden in a box", where the entire design of a flower garden is pre-packaged, with separate packets of each kind of flower, and a careful layout to be followed to create the proposed pattern of color in the garden-to-be.
History
Many, if not most, plants considered decorative flowers originated as weeds, which if attractive enough would sometimes be tolerated by farmers because of their appeal. This led to an artificial selection process, producing ever-prettier (to humans) flowers. This is thought to have occurred for the entire history of agriculture, perhaps even slightly earlier, when people tended to favor naturally occurring food-gathering spots. This may also explain why many flowers function as companion p read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower+garden
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