5 Most Popular Flowers for Your Garden
When planting a garden there are many questions which you must ask yourself before you begin. Where are you going to plant it, do you have the garden equipment to do so and how big do you want your garden to be? When do flowers bloom and what are their heights? These are all very important questions, however they mean very little if you have not yet decided which types of flowers you want to plant. There are many to choose from and dont le anybody tell you which ones you can and cant plant. Gardens are unique and fascinating to look at because each one is unique it its own way.
There are endless possibilities of flowers to choose from but if you are unsure of which types of flowers are known to look best in gardens, keep reading and you will find out. The following is a list of the five most popular types of garden flowers chosen by gardeners from all over the United States:
1. Cosmos – These flowers have the ability to grow anywhere from 12 inches to 4 feet tall. Cosmos are perfect for cutting gardens and are often picked out of gardens and used in flower arrangements.
2. Marigold – Marigolds can be found in yellow, orange, red or a combination of all colors. This type of flower blooms in 45 to 50 days from sowing and very rarely requires additional water than what the rain provides.
3. Morning Glory – Morning glories have heart shaped leaves and are available in a variety of colors including white, blue, red, pink and lavender. This type of flower has the capability to become more than ten feet high.
4. Zinnia – Zinnias are traditional, old fashioned flowers which are constantly blooming all season. If there is not a lot of rain, this type of flower will require watering on a consistent basis but try to get water on the foliage (leaves) as this can cause mold which can potentially cause the plant to die.
5. Sunflowers – Theres no better flower for your garden than the sunflower. Sunflowers have yellowish-orange petal with a black circle in the middle. These flowers can grow to be as tall as 6 feet or possibly even higher depending on the flower itself.
In order for your garden to flourish successfully, you will have to maintain it and keep it healthy on a daily basis. Watering cans, pruning shears, gloves and spades are all types of gardening equipment which will assist you in keeping your garden in good condition. These pieces of equipment are very important and are relatively inexpensive.
John Pawlett
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Suggestions on flowers in flower garden?
I have decided that I would like to start my own flower garden for beauty as well as to put together bouquets and give them to people and sell them. Here are the flowers I have decided I would like to put in the garden.
1. Lilies
2. Gladiolus
3. Roses
4. White daisies
5. Sun daisies
6. Maybe carnations
7. Maybe sunflowers
Does anyone have any suggestions to add to my list that are popular, beautiful flowers that you would buy? Thanks in advance.
This really depends on how much work you would like to put into your garden. I really don’t like sunflowers – the get much too big. Daisies can be nice, but the ones I have grown tend to be a bit invasive and hard to control. Lilies are usually nice, I like all sorts of them. Roses tend to be a lot of work – and if you do get them, be sure to get the right chemicals to keep them healthy, and know if you need to cover them in the winter.
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Hydrangea,one large stem in a mix will be beautiful.Baby Breath,Heathers and of course ferns for some greens.All hardy and fairly easy to grow.Hollyhocks,and gladiolas make great cut flowers.
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Hi!
You have a lot of pretty flowers listed already. From the ones you’ve noted, it looks like you have a sun garden. The first thing to do is come up with a garden plan that will allow you to manage when things bloom, how large the plants get, which are tall and short (so you’re not planting the tall things right in front of the short ones and obscuring the latter ones)–things like that–so when the plants come up and bloom, you’ll have pretty display throughout the growing season.
Here’s a plan that might give you a place to start. I’m assuming you’re in a planting zone that allows bulbs and perennials as well as annuals–and that you have mostly sun, but maybe a bit of partial shade (ferns, for example, will definitely need shade).
So at the front, you could plant low-growing phlox that blooms in early spring and is low-growing. Or candy tuft is another really pretty one (white flowers), also low growing. In the middle of the bed, you might have peony bushes (perennials) which are pretty easy to grow (plant in fall) and the good news is you can find varieties that bloom in early, mid, and late spring. They’re medium height–sort of like your daisies. The in back, you can plant foxglove which grow tall–these are biennials, so you’ll want to buy plants that are in bloom next spring–that way you can enjoy them the first season.
That’s just an idea about how to think about planning a garden, You can add in spring bulbs that come up before all this stuff, and then sedums (Autumn Joy is beautiful in fall) and chrysanthemums that bloom in fall. That way you’ll have early to late pretty flowers.
You can put in your daisies, too, but be sure to leave room for them, because they’ll really spread. The lilies are bulbs, so you can also plant them for mid-to-late spring blooming (depends on what you get). Sunflowers are annuals, and you can get large and small varieties, so decide where you want them, then buy the sort for where you site them.
As the previous answer suggested, roses are fairly tricky and since you mention just starting this garden, maybe they’d be challenging to tackle right off the bat.
Oh, and if you do have some shade, hostas are great. Impatiens (annual flowers) are beautiful–and both are easy to grow.
Look at some online sites like Bluestone perennials, WhiteFlower Farms, John Scheepers (bulbs) and get some great ideas!
You’ll have a great time–half the fun is planning it all.
Virginia
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