Choosing from a Selection of Flower Garden Designs

There are an abundance of flower garden designs available. Before making your choice, be sure to evaluate the specific flowers included in the flower garden plans to make sure that they fit your needs for your garden.

Here are four things that need to be considered:

#1: Your Hardiness Zone

Good designs tell you what the ideal zones are for each flower; however, some designers choose not to include that information which require more attention on your part. If most of the flowers in the design will grow in your hardiness zone, you can substitute similar plants for the flowers that are not hardy in your zone.

If most of the recommended flowers in the design are not ideal for your hardiness zone, I recommend that you pass it up and look for another one.

#2: Sunlight Requirements

Sun loving flowers grow in full sunlight which means that the receive sunlight for six or more hours a day. Shade plants are either for full shade or partial shade, which means less than 6 hours of sunlight per day. If you are planning a shade flower garden , you don’t want to choose a design that has flowers that require full sunlight, a vice-versa.

#3: The Space That You Have Available

Most designs can be adjusted if you are planting in a space that is not ideal for the design; however, if downsizing look to see if some of the flowers are recommended to be planted in bundles. Decreasing the bundles will sometimes mess up the overall look of the garden.

It is not a good idea to crowd in all of the plants into a smaller space. Doing so will keep the plants from growing to maturity and affect the blooming of the flowers.

#4: The Height of the Mature Plant

The height of the flowers and plants may not matter to you; however, if you want your garden to be below a window, the height of the fully mature flowers may come into play.

This information can usually be obtained from the nursery; however, if they are short on information it is handy to use a flower encyclopedia for the details of the plant or flower.

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