The Metropolitan Garden

Flower gardening is becoming more and more popular every day. Flowers smell nice, look beautiful, and brighten your day. Flower gardening is a simple inexpensive hobby that’s loads of fun. While most people grow flowers for their own pleasure, you can also grow them to sell at farmer’s markets or to floral shops.

Before you begin growing flowers, you need to know something about you yard and decide what you want to plant. To know what you can grow, you need to know what kind of soil you have, how much sun your site receives, how much planting space you have, and local weather patterns, among other things. You also need to decide if you want to grow perennials (which return year after year) or annuals (which die after one year). You may want to have a cutting garden where you can always pick things to bring indoors, or you may choose to plant flowers that can bloom for prolonged periods while still on the plant.

When flower gardening, it’s also important to decide what type of look you want before planting. For instance, mixing different heights, colors, and varieties of flowers together in a “wild-plant style” will give your garden a carefree look. You may also choose to plant short flowers in front of taller flowers to create a stair-stepped look. Your flowers may be woven throughout your garden, mixing with trees and shrubs, or they can be concentrated in one area. Many people like planting flowers in containers, which can be replanted yearly or layered to provide year round color and beauty.

You can get your plants in many forms and from many sources. Most people choose to buy containerized flowers from nurseries or catalogs. While this is a good solution for time-crunched people, there is also great satisfaction in buying and propagating seeds. With a good source and a little patience, you can grow a beautiful garden from seed. If you have friends who also enjoy flower gardening, you can set up a plant exchange program. As your flowers grow and thrive, you can exchange seeds, cuttings, or divisions to friends, expanding your plant palette and sharing the beauty and fun.

Maintaining flower gardens is easy. Before planting, and every 2-3 years afterwards, test your soil to get recommendations on any needed nutrients and fertilize as needed. Group your flowers according to their water and sun needs to minimize maintenance and resources. Many flowers benefit from ‘deadheading’, or removing spent flowers. By removing dead flowers, you can often encourage a new round of flowering. Adding a layer of mulch will reduce the need to pull weeds, while providing a gradual source of nutrients,

among many other benefits.

As you can see, flower gardening is fun and easy. With a little planning and some simple maintenance, you’ll have a beautiful flower garden in no time. Your friends and neighbors will be jealous of your flowers and marvel at your green thumb.

The very attractive garden is the wild flower garden. But someone say they have a bad luck with the gardening. You should know that it is not the good luck or bad luck, but it is the understanding and the attention. Each wild flower has the individual personality and characteristic. The plants always desire the environment that they have been accustomed to in the nature. If you take the plants out of their condition, they will sick and die. This is the reason why we should set up the suitable condition for them. You should notice the soil, the place, the condition, the surrounding, the neighbors and the other environments before you choose the wild flower from the nature.

These are the examples:

- If you find the A flower and the B flower are living together, you should put them together in your garden.

- If you find the A flower is living in the open situation, you should growing them in the same place. So if your flowers feel like they are living in their home, they will show the beautiful flower for you.

After the blossoming time is over is the best time for transplant the flowers. Just go to the forest and seek the favorite flowers. You should get the flower plants with the root and soil. They will be package in the closed bag or basket.

You will prepare the bed before you get the plants. It is not the good idea if your plants wait have wait to planting for a long time. The mixture of the soil in the bed is the wood’s soil and the leaf mold. The drainage system should be set up carefully. The plants do not like the closed water system. Some of the wood plants like the soil with the saturated water but not at all. You should put the stone in the bottom of your garden for the good water system. On the top soil of your garden, you should put some leaf mold and wood’s soil for the moisture system.

The early spring to late fall is the good time for you to create your wild flower garden. About March to April is the good time.

The spring beauty, saxifrage and hepatica should be start off in March. Everyone loves the hepatica. Before the spring, this plant will start to show the flower. The ray of warm sunshine is the best thing which the flowers are waiting for. The fuzzy covering protects the flower’s embryo. The hepatica plants will getting the leaf in the spring. It like the open place, rich and loose soil.

The spring beauty is the competition of the hepatica. The characteristic of the spring beauty is white flower with the little pink, thin and wiry stem, narrow and grass-like leaf. It grows in the great patches. You should plant the roots of them in the place where the sun light is not too much. Remember that the spring beauty loves the sun.

The saxifrage is growing in the dry and rocky places. We can find it in the chinks of rock. It is the rock garden plant. It loves the sandy place especially the big rock’s border. It has the white flower and the hairy stem.

Flower gardening can allow you to express your creativity, to get closer to nature, and to further enjoy being human. Here we present a few special flower gardening tips to help you be a more effective and creative flower gardener.

Plant the best flowers for your space. It’s important that you work with nature and not against it. Don’t overwhelm a small space with a large number of plant species. Select just a few so your flower garden does not look cluttered. You should plant sun loving flowers in a sunny location, shade loving flowers in a shady location. By selecting plants that are well-suited to your growing zone, as well as the area of your flower garden, you’ll have to do a lot less work and make your flower gardening much more rewarding. Space the plants to allow for their mature size.

Prepare for the soil. Producing gorgeous flowers requires good soil, so make sure your soil is healthy and rich. Good soil means good roots. Your flowering plants need healthy roots to support and nourish the stems, foliage and flowers. Loosen the soil down about six inches for annuals, ten to twelve inches for perennials. Mix in organic matter such as compost. Check the pH to see if you need to add lime or sulfur to adjust the pH.

Flower gardening requires the right tools. This means, not only, your trowels, shovels and hoes, but also fertilizer, soil amendments and watering aids. Having the right tools will make your flower gardening easier and more enjoyable.

It’s important to prune flowers for continued growth. This pruning includes dead-heading and cutting flowers back for inside arrangements. To deadhead a plant, you need to simply snip the dead or dying bloom off the mother plant. By removing the flower head, you keep the plant from focusing its attention on the creation of seeds, which will form in the dead flower head.

Use best fertilizer for flowers. You can use a general purpose granular fertilizer or a slow release granular fertilizer with an analysis of 10-10-10 or similar. Read and follow the label directions for how much to use. Never use more than the amount on the label. Over-fertilized plants are more prone to pests and diseases; if in doubt, use less.

Water Flowers Correctly. Watering flowers according to their specific needs is essential to successful flower gardening. Most flowers prefer soil that is evenly moist yet well drained. When you do water, apply it slowly and thoroughly. To be effective, the water must soak down to the deepest roots. It’s best to water early in the day to prevent evaporation and leaf-burn.

Follow the above tips to grow a healthy, beautiful flower garden overflowing with buds and blooms of all kinds all season long.