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.

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever!” This proverb must have been invented, keeping flower gardens in mind! True, flower gardening is tough work; yet, it is a well-loved activity that has been in existence for ages!

Think of all the benefits flower gardening can provide! Your yard is a riot of colors, and the intoxicating fragrances from your flowers waft into your entire living space! Not only can you “see” beauty, but you can also “smell” it! You have therefore created a wonderful getaway to escape all your worries–the result is a peaceful state of mind!

The physical activity provides you with plenty of fresh air and exercise, resulting in good health. Also, the value of your property increases because of the magnificent landscape!

There are some considerations to be kept in mind regarding flower gardening–

(1) You could follow the example set by others before you–plan your garden on paper first. This has been attempted by novice and expert alike, and has proved successful. Many have even gone so far as to maintain a gardening notebook, where they have kept track of the flowering plants in their alloted spaces in their gardens, and how they reacted to different conditions and seasons.

(2) Which area have you allocated for flower gardening, if it is outdoors? Outdoor could mean the front yard or back yard. Are you going in for container gardening? Then plan out where they are to be placed–both outdoors and indoors.

(3) Regarding the flowers themselves, you will have to do some investigation first, that is, can they survive and thrive in the environmental setting that you create for them. Wherever they grow, every plant needs a healthy medium. It is your responsibility to promise that to all of your plants!

(4) You have to consider how much of space you can afford to allot to your flowers. Just like humans, some plants do not mind crowds, while others prefer their own private space!

What you need to keep in mind before beginning flower gardening is that there is going to be heavy competition among the plants for resources and nutrition. Keep the flowers at a distance of three to five feet from the boundary or fence. And do not plant them anywhere near, or at the bases of bushes or trees, since the bigger plants will grab all the nutrients and leave little for the smaller ones!

(5) The next thing to consider is, soil. The quality of the soil should be such that it can support the presence of essential nutrients, and allow healthy growth of plants. The plants should be able to get adequate amount of nutrition from the soil. A soil test should reveal its quality.

Should the soil quality not be up to standard, you will need to add things that will improve the quality of the plant medium. These additions are called “amendments”. Fertilizers are also an option. Peat moss aids in retention of water as well as drainage of excess water. But again, you cannot go on modifying and modifying the soil–everything has a limit!

(6) Plants cannot prepare food without adequate light. So check out if the area allocated for your garden will get sufficient sunlight. Even here, you will need to differentiate–while some plants relish direct sunlight, there are others that flourish in the shade. Some plants neither require too much of light nor too much of shade.

On an average, there should be enough sunlight for six hours in the day (some places manage to even receive 12 hours). Plants suitable for all light conditions and shade, are available for flower gardening.

(7) Flowering plants grow everywhere and manage to survive in all kinds of habitats. Over a period of time, they get adapted to their respective dwelling places and the surrounding ecosystem. The same conditions have to be created in your garden if you plan to grow them for yourself. Those plants that are tolerant of harsh conditions find warmth intolerable. Tropical plants, on the other hand, cannot survive in the cold northern climate; they have to be brought indoors whenever conditions become unfavorable.

(8) Now that you have researched all conditions and backgrounds, see what plants are suitable for your garden. The flowers should adjust to the conditions you can provide them, and not the other way round!

There are plenty of plants to choose from for your flower gardening. So do not hunger for those exotic ones that cannot grow in your garden! Since you are a first-timer, go in for simple stuff like violets, petunias, marigolds, etc.

e a constant supply of beautiful cut flowers for your home, or fresh cut flowers for friends, and special occasions. Beautiful flowers at your disposal are possible by planting a well-stocked flower garden.

To begin your flower garden, select a sunny area, as a flower garden usually requires 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight each day. The selected area should be easily accessible for watering, in case your climate encounters long dry spell. Another factor for your flower garden is easy access for cutting your flowers, such as a raised flowerbed. The raised flowerbed is then accessible from all sides.

Fall Bulb Planting In order to have a constant supply of flowers available, consider when each flower blooms. For instance, plant Daffodils and Tulip bulbs in the fall for the earliest spring flower. A couple of other early spring flowers to consider for fall planting are: Giant flowering onion, grows 3-4 feet tall, with large purple flowers, and blooms early spring to mid-summer, and Crocus’s bloom in early spring, though there are varieties that bloom through autumn.

Spring Planting Gladiolus bulbs can be planted in early spring for beautiful blooms from early summer through the first frost. You can plant your gladiolus bulbs as early as two weeks before the last frost. Continue to plant the gladiolus bulbs every two weeks and you will have cut flowers until the first frost.

Annuals such as snapdragons, cosmos, zinnias, etc., are also planted in early spring after the last frost. Consider the length of time it takes your annual to bloom and plant accordingly so that you will have a flower bouquet right through fall.

With a little bit of planning and a little bit of work, your home can have beautiful cut flowers all summer long. Good Luck!

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A bouquet of flowers can brighten up your home. Likewise, a well stocked flower garden can add brightness and color to your lawn or garden. A well stocked flower garden can provide you with a colorful bouqet for your table or shelf, or a gift to brighten someone else’s day.

First of all, you’ll want a good location for your flower garden. Most flowers usually need 6-8 hours of direct sunlight every day, although there are some flowers that grow in more shady areas. You’ll need to match the flowers to the amount of sunlight that the flower garden will receive. Your flower garden should also be easily accessible for watering, weeding, and cutting the flowers.

Annuals vs. Perennials

You’ll need to decide whether you want to plant annuals or perennials in your garden, or a mix of both. Annuals, such as snapdragons, zinnias, and other flowers grow, bloom, and die off in one growing season. Perennials on the other hand can grow and bloom, year after year.

Fall Bulbs

Fall bulbs are those that are planted in the fall, such as daffodils, tulips, and crocuses. These bulbs are planted in the fall, and then grow and bloom early in the spring when the weather starts to warm up. The giant flowering onion is another good fall bulb, which is planted in the fall, and produces large purple flowers from early spring to mid-summer.

Spring Bulbs

Spring bulbs are planted in the early spring. Some of them are planted just before the last frost, while others are planted after the last frost. Bulbs such as Gladiolus are spring bulbs, meant to be planted as early as two weeks prior to the last frost. These bulbs can be planted every two weeks to provide flowers all summer. Spring bulbs produce flowers from the early summer until the first frost in autumn.

Seeds

Flower seeds are readily available at your local garden center, or even occasionally in your grocery store. Seeds can be a cheap way of sowing a flower garden. Some seeds require that you start them in containers indoors before moving them outside, and some you can just start planting right in your flower garden. Just follow the instructions on the seed package.

Plants

Your local garden center will have a wide range of flowering plants that will do well in your area. If you want some instant color for your flower garden, buy plants that are blooming, or just about to bloom. Then every 2-4 weeks, you can go back to the garden center, and select a few more flowers that are blooming. This way, you’ll have flowers blooming in your garden for the entire growing season.

Once you’ve chosen your location for your garden, and the plants that you want, you’ll need to organize your garden. As you’re planting, keep in mind how big the plants will be when they’re full sized. You’ll want the shorter plants in front, and the taller plants in back. You’ll also want to keep in mind the colors of the flowers. You may want to group flowers of similar colors together, or you may want to plant contrasting plants near each other.

Growing cut flowers in your flower garden isn’t difficult, but it does take some thinking and planning, and of course a bit of work. But the end result will be worth it. You’ll have a healthy, colorful flowerbed, and cut flowers for bouquets all summer long.

There are many questions that need to be addressed before you start on with your practice of flower gardening in containers. Few of those questions are as follows:

- What size of container do you have in mind? Would you prefer planting several different flowers in one large pot or you would like to use small containers for planting various flowers?

- Are you open to the idea of few hanging plants besides the stationary containers?

- Would you like to keep a provision for rearrangement in your container garden in case its looks start getting boring after a certain period of time?

- What’s purpose is your endeavor of container gardening serving?

- What type of visual appeal are you planning to give to your container garden?

- Will it be mini plants or large plants in your container garden?

Though, given the right conditions and care, almost any plant can be grown in a container, however, if you are planning to have mixed plants in your container garden, there are several important points that need consideration. For example, the strawberry plants are usually not very competent when it comes to extracting nutrients and water from the soil. Therefore, planting them with an aggressive plant can result in strawberries being deprived of all the necessary nutrients required for their growth. Thus, it will be better if a small study can be done beforehand to find out the plants that possess similar characteristics and can be planted together for equal growth opportunity.

While its feasible to grow any flower plant in a container, you will still need to provide it with necessary ingredients like water, light, soil and nutrients. You may even be required to employ a grow light (can be purchased at the local gardening store) for flowers needing full sunlight. The flowers that can survive even with indirect sunlight will fare well even near the window space. You must also be cautious that you don’t use the normal garden soil for container gardening as it will transform into compact-hard type after some time, resulting in cramped roots.

It’s better to use enhanced solutions like sterilized potting mix, soil-less potting mixtures or the prepared potting soil that can be bought at any nursery in your vicinity. In case you prefer adding some organic matter to the enhanced soil, you can use peat moss. Some specific plants like African violets and orchids demand special types of potting mixtures. All such requirements must not come as a surprise, thus, you must keep yourself updated and aware of all the needs of the plants in your container garden.

Even though you may be all geared up to create the best possible container garden right now, please remember, it’s not possible to maintain such high enthusiasm levels throughout the journey. Hence, you must carefully plan out the plants you will grow depending on your availability and effort that you will be able to spare. Plants like African violets are relatively easier to grow as compared to exotic breeds like bird of paradise that requires great attention.

Once you have figured out the plants that you will be growing in your containers, it’s time to start thinking about the designs and placements. Let your imagination take over at this point and indulge in whichever way to enhance the visual appeal of your garden. You can either consider clustering up the containers together or placing them away from each other at strategic locations. You can also think about lining them up neatly on wooden benches or adorn your bland looking stairway. Nothing looks beautiful than cute looking small containers with beautiful flowers in them giving you company while you climb the stairs. Window boxes can even be employed to brighten up the windowpanes.

Coming now to the actual planting procedure, you must start by placing some chipped wood or rocks at the containers’ base. This is a better drainage solution as compared to holes that may lead to soil loss. Now start filling up the container slowly with your soil mixture (containing organic matter) and the beneficial fertilizer. Don’t go on filling till the top as yet and stop at the level where you’d like your plants roots to settle. Place the plants root ball on the soil and start filling up rest of the container with soil up till one inch from the top. Once done, put plenty of water into the container immediately. In order to prevent the soil from drying up, you can also add dried moss or pebbles around the plants’ base.

Plants that are most optimum for growth in containers are some tender perennials and non-hardy ones like coleus, delicate bulbs, lantana and asters. Annuals are also a wonderful option for container gardens as they bloom in no time and can endure even winter conditions.

The container gardens, though relatively easy to create, need good maintenance. They require constant watering as the soil in the containers dries out swiftly as it is fast-draining and lighter in nature. Plants in the container will also require all necessary nutrients to grow naturally like their counterparts planted on the ground. If taken care of well, your container gardens can liven up your living room and keep your spirits always high.

Knowing how to care for your flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health.

1. The essentials must always be given major consideration.

Your flower garden must have an adequate supply of water, sunlight, and fertile soil. Any lack of these basic necessities will greatly affect the health of plants. Water the flower garden more frequently during dry spells.

When planting bulbs, make sure they go at the correct depth. When planting out shrubs and perennials, make sure that you don’t heap soil or mulch up around the stem. If you do, water will drain off instead of sinking in, and the stem could develop rot through overheating.

2. Mix and match perennials with annuals.

Perennial flower bulbs need not to be replanted since they grow and bloom for several years while annuals grow and bloom for only one season. Mixing a few perennials with annuals ensures that you will always have blooms coming on.

3. Deadhead to encourage more blossoms.

Deadheading is simply snipping off the flower head after it wilts. This will make the plant produce more flowers. Just make sure that you don’t discard the deadhead on the garden or mildew and other plant disease will attack your plants.

4. Know the good from the bad bugs.

Most garden insects do more good than harm. Butterflies, beetles and bees are known pollinators. They fertilize plants through unintentional transfer of pollen from one plant to another. 80% of flowering plants rely on insects for survival.

Sowbugs and dung beetles together with fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms are necessary to help in the decomposition of dead plant material, thus enriching the soil and making more nutrients available to growing plants.

Other insects like lacewings and dragonflies are natural predators of those insects that do the real damage, like aphis.

An occasional application of liquid fertilizer when plants are flowering will keep them blooming for longer.

Always prune any dead or damaged branches. Fuchsias are particularly prone to snapping when you brush against them. The broken branch can be potted up to give you a new plant, so it won’t be wasted.

Autumn is a wonderful season! All the different hues of nature can be witnessed in the trees around! Flowers give out heady fragrances, and there is generally an atmosphere of magic all around! This season is therefore a boon for garden lovers, since there are any number of plants which are created just for fall flower gardening!

Some features of fall flower gardening are listed below–

(1) Why fall flower gardening at all? These magnificent plants give a new look to the landscape around the house. The gardener gets immense pleasure from what he/she has created. And best of all, one is surrounded by intoxicating perfumes!

(2) Fall season stretches to a few months. So when is the best time to begin fall flower gardening? People who live in highly warm climates are lucky! The (annual) flowers can be planted during autumn itself. Additionally, they even grow and bloom in the same season; so the owner can enjoy everything at one and the same time!

Those dwelling in places with colder climates will have to plant the flowers before fall, and wait to enjoy their color and fragrance during the autumn.

(3) In actual fact, there is no standard answer to the above question–it is just a matter of guesswork. Every year, there could be a different time period that seems appropriate for fall flower gardening. All that an avid gardener can do is wait till the opportunity presents itself, and then grab it!

To illustrate with an example, a mild summer may be followed by a period of rainfall. This occurs somewhere towards the end of August. This then would be an ideal time for growing flowers. In other areas, September would seem to be the ideal month for growing flowers.

(4) There is another choice available–an entirely new flower garden can be started just before autumn.

When the summer season comes to an end, local garden centers offer those plants which could not be sold during the spring season, at discounted rates. Unless there are pests on these plants, they can be safely taken home and brought back to good health via container gardening. Once the weather turns cooler, the same plants can be transplanted into the outdoor garden.

(5) Fall flower gardening can include annual plants as well as perennials. Annual flowers are tender and may survive for a briefer period than perennial flowers. Perennial plants are sturdier and able to tolerate early frost–so their flowers can be enjoyed for a lengthier period of time.

(6) With a little research, the gardener can obtain plants that grow late blossoms, but generally before the arrival of the first frost. These flowers are actually planted during the summer; so, it is possible that excess foliage will need to be trimmed during fall season. This is done by pruning or staking. A disadvantage is that pruning leads to late blooming.

(7) Fall flowering garden can include plants that grow vegetables too. Some of them are peppers, cabbage and kales. As a matter of fact, ornamental peppers exhibit wonderfully colored flowers and fruits. Thus, enjoy them and taste them too!

(8) Some popular flowering plants are–perennial asters that blossom every fall, year after year, and pansies; pansies bloom during the fall, winter and spring seasons.

(9) Some exotic and colorful additions to the garden can be attempted if the gardener so desires. These could be–reddish-purple love-lies-bleeding flowers, pinkish-purple mums, and New England asters.

(10) There are other blooms that can really be breathtaking in appearance! They are therefore welcome additions to the flower garden.

Nasturtiums (give out orange and yellow flowers).

Silver king artemisia.

Reddish-purple plumed celosia.

Bronze coleus.

Marigold (give out yellow, gold and orange flowers).

(11) Perennial plants come in a vast range. The gardener can take his pick from among sunflowers, aconite, yellow wax bells, phlox, autumn crocus, tall verbena, golden rod, Russian sage, black-eyed susan or the ragged coneflower.

(12) To enhance the fall flower gardening experience, the gardener can visualize the difference that vines, shrubs and ornamental grasses will create when invited to become part of the already vivid panorama!

If you should ever observe a range of photographs, you would notice that the most frequently photographed object is the simple “flower”! The reasons for capturing flowers on camera and presenting them as flower gardening pictures for public viewing, are varied.

It is hard for anyone to fathom how nature has managed to come up with such a myriad variety of colors! Fortunately, flowers are able to survive in all sorts of habitats, so beauty is to be seen everywhere! Not to forget the intoxicating perfumes that waft into the surrounding atmosphere because of their presence! Thus, flower gardening pictures have become a favorite topic for photographers all over the world.

Some aspects of flower gardening pictures are presented here–

(1) Every photographer realizes that the “flower” is a prized work of art produced by nature that is appreciated the world over, especially by avid gardeners. So these flower gardening pictures find their way into web sites dedicated to gardening, books on gardening, gardening magazines, guides and encyclopedias dedicated to gardening.

(2) There is no need to go in for highly advanced technological gadgets to snap photographs of flower gardens! Whatever camera is used, simple or expensive, good focusing will ensure a good picture. Experts believe that the photograph with its background is already present; only the “clicking” of the camera is required. So there is competition among the professionals to trap these “blooming beauties” forever in the form of pictures!

(3) The major aim is to inspire a viewer to go in for flower gardening! If the right interest can be created via these photographs, more and more people will realize the potential in creating a garden full of flowers.

(4) It is not necessary for the photographer to concentrate on a single flower. The idea is to impress the viewer with the beauty presented in the picture. So, the camera’s focus can be directed towards individual flowers; flowers in the foreground or background along with solid structures, or vice versa; small areas; or large expanses–depending on the purpose for which the photograph is being snapped.

(5) The time of the day is also related to the purpose behind the picture. It could be daytime or evening time. The focus could be on sunny areas in the garden or the shady parts.

(6) Additionally, it is entirely up to the photographer whether he/she wishes to present the entire picture, or just a bit of it and leave the viewer to fill in the gaps. Creativity can always find an outlet in different ways! What is important to realize is that flower gardening pictures represent reality in all its significence, they are not just mere copies!

(7) Since these photographs are meant for public viewing, novice gardeners as well as expert gardeners can use them as references. There are pictures of all types of healthy flowers, container gardening arrangements, various designs related to gardens, complete gardens, and so on.

(8) The idea is to get the viewer’s creative juices flowing! It can lead to more people deciding to take up the hobby of gardening. It can inspire gardeners to try out similar ideas as presented in the photographs, or even improve upon them. They can indicate what a garden will ultimately look like after it is finished.

(9) One need not be a professional photographer to capture flowers on camera! A dedicated gardener can create his/her own flower gardening pictures too. It would help to maintain a journal of photographs, indicating “what it was like before” and “what it is like now”. Photographs have to be taken regularly–the actual plot meant for the garden, growing seasons, final display. Written notes below each picture will serve as records for the future. Thus, the next garden is sure to be an improved, and much better version of the earlier one!