Planting your summer flower garden takes early preparation before summer arrives. What you want is a garden that is alive with color all summer long. Proper planning and care will yield a beautiful summer flower garden.
Planning Your Garden
All types of gardening begin with the planning phase. If you don’t plan ahead, then you are planning for your garden to fail. Start with a drawing of the planting areas. Include existing trees, shrubs, and borders.
Be sure to differentiate the shady from the sunny areas on the design plans. Hostas work well in shade or full sun and there are many different varieties to choose from. Most flowering plants like daisies, marigolds, and daylilies enjoy full sun.
Choosing Your Plants
When choosing your plants, note the particular growing season of each. Know that if you include annuals that they bloom once a year. By summer, you may have only green stalks.
Look at drawings of the full grown flowers in seed catalogues. Knowing the final size of the plant will guide you in determining what size area to allow for their planting. Be mindful that bulbs need to be planted earlier in the year to ensure that they will bloom during the summer.
Plant Arrangement
Grouping different plants with the same color hue together deepens the effect of the color on your garden landscape. You may also decide to alternate colors using different plants. Whatever your choice, choose colors that complement each other to be side by side in the flower garden.
Plants need to be arranged by height. This way, all of the plants receive the sunlight they need. Also, they all will be able to be viewed by others if the shorter plants are in front of the taller ones.
Planting Alternatives
Planting a flower garden doesn’t necessarily mean planting in the ground. Container gardens are beautiful and add something special to your garden. Container flower gardens can be used to dress up a patio, a deck, or other area of the garden.
Container gardens are versatile. They can be moved from place to place depending on your mood. If you feel like warm reds, yellows, and oranges this month, but want a softer look to the patio the next month, you can switch those plants for pots containing ones that are pink, baby blue, and lilac in color.
Containers can be all sizes, shapes, colors, and materials. Mixing terracotta pots with glazed pottery creates a unique look. Using pots of varying sizes in an arrangement could become a conversation piece.
Planting a summer flower garden takes planning. Sticking to your plan designs will make bringing it all together very easy. Choose your plants early to make sure your garden gets the full benefit of their blooms.
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