How to Landscape a Flag Pole

Add landscaping around a flagpole.

Landscaping around a flagpole adds a great deal of beauty and functionality to an otherwise boring display. There are numerous ways that you can create landscaping around a flagpole that enhances both your garden and the flag on its flagpole.

Using basic plants and simple gardening techniques, garden lights and tools that are available at any gardening or hardware store, you can change the landscape around your flag pole.

Things You'll Need

• Rocks or bricks
• Mulch
• Topsoil (optional)
• Flowers
• Shovel
• Garden lights

Instructions

Add Flowers

1. Clear out the grass, weeds or other plants around your flagpole in a circle with a diameter of 3 to 4 feet. Add fresh, healthy topsoil to the ground if necessary.

2. Place decorative landscaping bricks or rocks around the perimeter of your circle.

3. Dig a hole for each flowering plant that's the size of the container it came in. Your plants should cover the circle at the base of your flagpole. Space them as far apart as each plant requires.

4. Plant your flowers by removing them from their containers and placing each root ball in the ground so that it is level with surface of the soil.

5. Water your plants thoroughly. Keep the soil around your flagpole moist, but do not saturate it.

Add Lights

1. To install garden lights around your flagpole to illuminate the flag at night, place three to four lamps at a distance from your flagpole.

2. Measure a distance of about half your flagpole's length, and place three to four garden lamps there. Aim the lights at the top of your flagpole.

3. Place one or two lights among the rocks around the perimeter of your flagpole to illuminate your plants. Aim the lights at the plants.

Tips & Warnings

• Choose plants that reflect the colors of your flag or the organization for which the flag is being flown.

References

• Residential Landscape Lighting Design: Lighting Flagpoles
• A Perfect Garden: Annuals