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Weekend Gardener — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:45:43 +0000

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Pacific Beauty Mixture Calendula Seeds – Calendula officinalis – 1 Gram – Approx 150 Gardening Seeds – Flower Garden Seed

Weekend Gardener — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:26:48 +0000

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Setting Up Your Flower Garden – Landscaping Idea for a Beautiful Flower

Weekend Gardener — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:45:55 +0000

Having a beautiful garden can be extremely rewarding, though it will take some work to keep it at its best. When you first set it up you will need to do some thinking about the kinds of flowers you want to look after. You will then need to take care to maintain the levels of water, sunlight and nutrients. Here are a few simple tips for looking after your flower garden.

It goes without saying that your flowers need water to live. This can come from Mother Nature, though you may also use artificial sprinklers. Be careful not to over-water your plants as this will do more harm than good.

As well as keeping your plants watered, they will need enough light to develop properly. This means you should make sure the sun can access your garden, and you can also increase their development by using fertilizers in the earth when planting your flowers.

When choosing what to put in your flower garden, remember that different flowers will grow at different times of the year. Perennial flowers can live for as long as three years, and they go through cycles of growth where you should always insure you are deadheading the flowers that are becoming week to help the plant stay healthy overall. This simply means removing the flowers that are dying to make room for healthy new ones.

Using a mix of annuals and perennials can make your garden a lot more interesting, but providing you with an assortment of different flowers as well as making sure there is always something flowering at any one time. However, bear in mind that this will keep you busy in your garden through the whole year.

When gardening remember that many insects can do your flowers a lot of good and not just harm them. The insects help your flowers to reproduce, and will help kill off any other types of insect that want to do harm to your flowers. Using insecticides may even damage your seeds, so instead make sure your earth is well fertilized.

As well as fertilizing the soil you could also add a layer of mulch. This will keep the soil moist and will even make your garden look more attractive. By doing this you will give your seeds the best chance of growing healthily.

Once you have spent some time in your flower garden you will start to understand what works best for it. For example, there are many different fertilizers on the market. You will probably find one that works best for your garden, as well as learning natural ways to discourage weeds from growing. It may sound difficult, but many of these skills will simply come with time. You will soon learn how to keep the soil moist and healthy, and how to make your flowers live as long as they can. Once you have put all of these methods into place you will soon have a beautiful garden to enjoy all year round!

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Weekend Gardener — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:46:02 +0000

The beauty of flowers is easy to see but flowers also attract bees, hummingbirds and butterflies. This is at the Summerland Ornamental Garden.

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Prestige Scarlet Celosia Seeds – Celosia cristata – 0.1 Grams – Approx 160 Gardening Seeds – Flower Garden Seed

Weekend Gardener — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:27:37 +0000

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Weekend Gardener — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:45:54 +0000

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Weekend Gardener — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:45:31 +0000

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Flower Garden: 4 Fundamental Tips on Starting a Flower Garden

Weekend Gardener — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:45:10 +0000

Are you thinking to start gardening as a hobby? Or maybe you’re planning to create your very own flower garden? That’s fantastic! There is much to be said about how gardening can be spiritually satisfying. And you’ll have so much fun experimenting with flowers and the beauty and splendor they can give to your lawn or to your backyard. Here are 4 fundamental tips on how you can create a wonderfully ideal flower garden.

1. Flowers are all about colors. These colors and their hues are all about harmony and coordination. And just like your wardrobe, a careless combination of colors could turn out to be quite unattractive. Truly unsightly. You really must coordinate the colors of your flowers. In such cases then, whatever you decide to grow and cultivate will require some planning and organization. One of the first decisions you’ll need to make is about the color scheme that you’d like to have for your garden or backyard. After that, select your flowering plants according to this plan.

2. Flowers can be used to brighten and liven up the shady areas and the dim locations of your garden or backyard. Have you got a spot or an area that isn’t being touched by sunlight? It just can’t be reached by the sun? You can readily enhance theses locations using better lighting to produce an explosion of colors. If flowering plants are to be used for this purpose, it’s best to select bright and vibrant colored blooms. It would be good to stay away from dark and gloomy colored flowers. They do nothing to help shady or dim areas.

3. Flower gardens often have a focal point. It may be a statue or a sculpture, a fountain or a water garden, or any type of monument or memorial. Still, if your flower garden doesn’t have such a focal point, you can make use of the plants themselves as the centerpiece. Aim to decide on a specific color, and choose flowering plants that provide blooms of such a shade. Then arrange your flower garden to direct attention and interest towards a cluster of these flowers.

4. Select carefully and intelligently between annuals and perennials for your flower garden.

Annuals come into flowers and bloom only once during their lifetime-which normally lasts for a year or less. Even with this, their flowers are far more colorful| and vibrant, far more fragrant and sweet-smelling, and far more grand than other varieties of flowers.

Perennials, on the other hand, bloom many times during their lifespan. This usually takes many years. Their flowers may not be as splendid as those of an annuals’ blooms, but perennials are definitely easier and more convenient to grow and cultivate. This makes them a much more practical choice.

There are many more tips and guidelines to help you in starting a flower garden. Take your time. This is something that you shouldn’t rush. You’ll enjoy the process so much more.

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Weekend Gardener — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:46:17 +0000

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Planning And Planting A Flower Garden

Weekend Gardener — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:46:26 +0000

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.