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Here’s a brief primer on creating a flower garden design that’s absolutely fabulous!

Whether you’ve just moved into a house with no landscaping whatsoever, or if you just want to do a remake on your existing garden, the secret to success in a good flower garden design is in careful planning. Depending on the amount of space you have to work with, it may take a few seasons to get the garden filled out, but it’s certainly doable.

It’s well worth your time to think long and hard before you forge ahead and start breaking ground. Here’s how to make the most of your flower garden design, a design you’ll be happy with for many years to come.

First you must decide what style of flower garden pleases you most. For example, you might like a neat and orderly garden, with what real estate agents refer to as ‘curb appeal’.

Maybe what suits your personality best is the cottage style flower garden, with blooms in a variety of heights dotting your landscape. If your passion is cut flower arrangements, a cutting garden may be the answer.

If you have a large garden area, your dream flower garden design may consist of large drifts of flowers, with winding pathways and secret gardens to be discovered along the way.

Once you’ve settled on the style you find most pleasing, you’re ready to begin the flower garden design process.

Online, at your favorite bookstore or even your local library, you will find books which offer comprehensive pictorial depictions of various flower garden styles.

You’ll learn how and why particular placement of plants and various elements of garden design make that style work. You’ll also get plenty of ideas on which plants lend drama, seasonal color, as well as factors such as drought tolerance that might influence your choices.

It’s been said that variety is the spice of life and this is also true in a good flower garden design. You want to integrate an assortment of garden features to lend variety to the landscape.

For example, flowering trees, such as the flowering cherry and magnolia can add grandeur and elegance as a backdrop to your flower garden. Placement of shrubs along garden pathways can serve as a privacy screen in certain sections of the garden. If your land is basically flat, you can add interest by making a berm, a raised and rounded area which tapers off at each end. Planted with a few perennials, you can have a really eye-catching display.

Pathways, with stepping stones planted with a small ground cover, might wind through even a small stretch of garden, ending at a garden bench surrounded with fragrant flowers for a quiet, relaxing reprieve from the world.

Ornamental grasses are other elements of a flower garden design, which evoke a serene feeling when planted alongside a drift of Russian sage, with its beautiful, graceful purple flowers.

Daylilies, Alstromeria and Agapanthus are longtime favorites in the summer flower garden, with good reason. The displays are bountiful and little maintenance is required. If you live in an area with acid soil, consider integrating azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons into your flower garden design for a spectacular showing in spring. Daffodils which naturalize, multiply on their own, dividing and spreading over the landscape. If you can, shoot for four season color. It all depends on how cold your winters are.

Today’s garden software makes creating a flower garden design a snap. You can also preview how your garden will look over time, as it fills out and matures.

We are in the process of evaluating some very interesting garden design software products. We plan to make a decision and recommend our favorite one soon so be on the look out for the live link soon!

Remember, a great garden is all about careful thought and planning. That’s the secrets to having and enjoying the ultimate flower garden at home.

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Welcome back to Home and Garden Guide Online. In a recent essay we talked about Native Plants in conjunction to water conservation gardening.

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In our last essay we talked about tips, tricks and ideas for a flower garden. Gardens based on a flower only design are nice and work well for most of our interested readers but the are not the only way to achieve ones desired attraction for “flower gardening.”

Native plants make for a nice sustainable garden and a native garden guide should be considered as it will make it easy to design a lovely garden of this type.

Climate changes affect almost everyone in the world. Water shortages are common and in some regions, your water usage may even be restricted.

It’s becoming more difficult to have that lush tropical garden in drought areas. There are many excellent and comprehensive plant guides which include most plants, but which may not readily survive in your garden.

Maybe it’s time to rethink your garden plans, with an eye to beautiful beds filled with native plants. Regional native plant guides are limited to flowers, grasses and other ornamentals and wildflowers which are adapted to your garden’s environment and seasonal changes.

Find a Native plant guides that offers many entries from which you may choose to create a new display of flowers which will thrive and hang tough in harsh conditions you may experience in your area on a yearly basis.

Not only these native plants thrive, but they’ll require less maintenance. After all, native plants flourished in the area before there were any gardeners to water them!

While native plants will survive even when neglected, a little pruning, trimming and dead-heading in your flower beds will keep your garden looking like the ones in the garden magazines.

Another advantage in using native plants to design your landscaping is that, while a more exotic species may fall prey to a local pest, native plants are typically more resistant, which reduces your workload considerably and results in a more beautiful garden.

Native plant guides give you the full particulars of the plant’s physical characteristics, growing and soil conditions and every other detail you may need to know.

Look for plant guides which include photos. This makes it easy to find plants which catch your eye, appeal to your taste and help you to coordinate desirable color themes.

As you discover those perfect native plant candidates which will fit beautifully in a certain location, consult your local nursery for any comments and advice they might have concerning specific varieties which may do best in your garden.

Search around on the net for regional nurseries which stock less common native plants.

Here’s some popular examples:

Prickly pear cactus it bears large, beautiful pink flowers in spring, may not be available at your neighborhood nursery, but you’ll be able to find sources online. This plant can make a spectacular center piece. Make sure to use sandy soil.

No matter what area of the country you live in, you can find a native plant guide, just chock full of choices to suit your purposes.

As you can see, with a little imagination you can create that dream flower garden in any location with any conditions.

It’s never to soon to start thinking about your flower garden plans. In most areas it’s not even to late.

Flower garden ideas can be a real balancing act. On the one hand, you want your flower garden to be bright and colorful. You don’t want the same bed of flowers, trees, and small fountain that your neighbor has.

If you’re like us, you want something different that will show that you are unique, creative and quite the home gardener. Something that expresses your individuality. After all, why else would you be here looking for ideas. Why would you spend so much time thinking about and figuring out ways to really enjoy your garden areas?

You know you think big…we all do but you and I both know that your flower garden ideas can’t become too outlandish. It’s a known fact with us gardeners– the most innovative, adventurous flower garden ideas tend to never get realized.

They are either way too expensive or too much work to finish in one planting season. Or they end up being way too exotic to meet the approval of every one involved with the decision.

It’s o.k. to dream, but once you start up on a project you should be reasonably certain that you can actually follow through with it successfully.

That is why, when it comes to flower garden design ideas, less is more. Don’t get me wrong – after you have been doing it for a few years, you will have a better grasp of what you can and can’t accomplish in the planting season.

Still, when you’re first starting off, you should keep your flower garden idea pretty small and compact.

Here’s a tip… try using a sparse design. Don’t plant huge banks of flowers – plant a few flowers here and there, combined with some ornamental pieces. This way you’ll create small easy to care for eye catching areas of elegance that can always be added too.

Most professional gardeners will agree that new gardeners should consider a simple rule of thumb for flower planting ideas:

“figure out how much time you have, then, come up with a plan that should take about half that long.”

Everything always takes longer than you think it would – particularly if you are new to something.

Once you have accomplished small garden areas you can add on some more flower garden ideas along the way.

Keep in mind, you don’t have to plan it all out at once. You will find that what you do even as simple as two or three small flower garden beds will be very appealing, soothing to the eye and inspiring to you and all who see what you’ve done through proper planning.

For more garden planning information check out our related posts:

The Gardeners Handbook
Gardening Secrets For Spring Garden Preparation

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