Sketch Out Your Design
There’s nothing worse than getting the shovel and hoe and realizing you don’t know where or how to start implementing your flower garden design. The gardener should have a list of supplies, a budget and design already mapped out.
Solicit The Help Of Friends
The solitary gardener may not want help but if you have a lot of digging to do, young hands are very helpful. Each flower garden design requires that the area be cleared of all debris, grass and weeds. The soil may need to be treated with fertilizer, nitrogen or lime depending on the condition of the ground. That means a gardener has a lot of work ahead of them.
Move Existing Plants If Other Plant Beds Need Thinning Out
Buying new plants can be very expensive. As gardener, you have the authority to move plants! Inventory your existing plants and see if some of those can be used in the new flower garden design.
Leave Open Space
Many a gardener has put in too many plants and not allowed for the plant’s future growth in their new flower garden design. A crowded design looks overrun and invites mold and mildew in certain situations. If there’s mold and mildew, nasty bugs will be on the scene too.
Build Individual Raised Boxes
Every flower garden design should reflect character and diversity. The gardener can cut treated lumber into triangles, squares, and rectangles so the viewer doesn’t get bored with the flower garden design. The lumber can be placed into the ground or left on top once the soil is added.
College Seniors Sometimes Have Senior Boards
In our area, high school college seniors are looking for senior board projects (in order to graduate). Someone might be interested in setting up a fishpond for you, at no charge. The gardener could save a lot of hard work and backache ending up with a focal point in the flower garden design.
Low Maintenance Flower Garden Design
Every gardener wants to enjoy their flower garden design and not be pulling weeds. The gardener can make walkways and open spaces by putting down black plastic and covering with their choice of stone, rock, or other substance. An array of colors against blooming flowers makes a striking design.
Place Flowers Strategically
The plants that the gardener chooses to place in their flower garden design should be adaptable to the region’s climate conditions. Sometimes repositioning a plant that’s suffering into another part of the garden makes all the difference. Each plant will acclimate based on their growing nature.
Don’t Settle For Less
As the gardener works with their flower garden design, they will make changes along the way. Not every flower garden design should be set in stone, so to speak. Every gardener is wise to adhere to nature’s wisdom and make changes as the garden grows but should not stop gardening until they achieve the perfect garden of their dreams.
These few suggestions will get the gardener thinking about more ways to enhance their existing flower garden design. My best advice is to roll up your sleeves and dig in.
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By: Betsy Cobb Wise
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