How to Make a List of Purple Flowers
Suppose you want to create a flower garden filled with only those flowers which are purple but that you want there to be flowers in bloom from early spring until late fall. As you plan your garden, you'll need to generate a list of purple flowers so that you can figure out how to lay out each bed, when to plant each flower, and how to cultivate each so that they continue to thrive from one season to the next. The best way to do this is to use a spreadsheet file on the computer such as Excel. This allows you to add flowers and also to quickly rearrange the list whenever you need to. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Set up your spreadsheet by labeling the cells along the top of the paper. The first column should be the name of the flower. Then make a column for each of the following attributes: blooming season, planting instructions, size, perennial, annual or biennial, sun or shade, edible, good for drying, fragrant. Leave another column to say where you bought or obtained this plant. The last column should be for comments about the soil conditions, prices and details about how the plant fares in your garden.
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Start itemizing the list by naming the purple flowers that you already have in your garden or know about. These will probably include grape hyacinths which bloom in the early spring and Japanese iris which bloom a bit later. Since you are using a spreadsheet, you can list the flowers in whichever order they come to mind. Then highlight the top of the first column and use the button on the toolbar that reads "A>Z." This function will alphabetize the list.
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Use seed catalogs and garden reference books to find the details about each kind of flower. For example, one purple flower, monarda fistulosa, likes sun or partial shade. It wants rich, moist soil. Each plant grows to a height of about 4 feet and spreads out for 18 inches, so this fairly large plant could be placed in the back of a bed where it will bloom during midsummer in zones 3 through 8. (For information on zones, see Resources.) As you learn new details about each, put the information in the appropriate column.
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Highlight the row of each plant that you already have in your garden before coloring the row lilac. This will help you quickly find the items on the list that you need to edit or update. As you learn about more purple flowers and add them to your list, you may decide to utilize other colors to help you to get the most efficient use of your list.
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