Added: 01/13/2006 |
Garden flowersIt is one of the most rewarding sights to see your garden full of healthy, colorful garden flowers and plants in full blossom. If you carefully select plant colors, heights and flowering times, your garden flowers will boast a riot of blooms all spring, summer and autumn long. You can buy a good selection of bulbs and flower seeds from garden flower farm.
Bulbs
Bulbs are a large and popular family of garden plants. If you want to have beautiful, spring garden flowers like tulips, hyacinths, or daffodils, you have to plant them in the fall, four to six weeks before the first frost in your area. Bulbs grow well in flowerbeds with well drained, but moist soil.
Sprinkle a little bulb fertilizer in the hole, while planting. For marking flowerbeds, spread the fertilizer on top of the soil.
The most famous bulbs are tulips. Gardeners grow at least a few of these attractive, easy to grow bulbs, that herald the arrival of spring.
Perennials
Asters are an easy to grow in average soils perennial garden flowers. One would better feed them with compost and add a general-purpose fertilizer monthly, in order to make these garden flowers healthier. Perennials garden flowers come in a palette of purples, blues, and pinks.
Asters benefit from dividing every two to three years. Dig out half to two thirds of the plants, leaving the remainder in place. Then split the portion you dug out into two parts and plant them separately in another spot.
Asters can be either seeded directly into your outdoor garden, or seeded indoors for transplanting later. To have a proper spacing, it's better to plant asters in containers indoors, then transplanting the seedlings outdoors in early spring.
Sow seeds early in the season and cover lightly with soil. Water thoroughly only once. They will grow quickly, coming into bloom by mid-summer.
Annuals
Begonias are versatile garden flowers, which grow in flowerbeds, hanging baskets, pots and containers. Begonias are widely known for their flowers, as well as their showy waxy green or chocolate leaves. Begonias can be white, red, white, pink, or yellow with a bright yellow center.
Begonias are propagated from flower seeds or cuttings. It's easier to buy seedlings, as begonia seeds are very fine. Cuttings are much easier, if you already have a plant and want to propagate new ones.
Begonias do not like frost and enjoy sunshine. They grow well in rich, loose and fertile soil. Water them abundantly, but don't water again until the soil dries.
These type of garden flowers thrive under care. Remember to remove dead flowers and leaves regularly. Add a general-purpose fertilizer once a month.
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