The joy of a garden in full bloom is underscored when many hues and colors co-exist in floral harmony. Planning and designing is vital and points like color scheme, design and layout of the beds, heights and textures of plants, lawn positioning and fountains, among other features, needs to be carefully considered.

The pleasure of viewing seasonal flowers more than makes up for the effort and physical discomfort that yearly planting entails. When planting season comes around, the unending range and blending of colors that these flowers put out, makes for an interesting and challenging exercise in co-ordination. Transfer your thoughts on paper with crayon daubs of color for a first, rough sketch. Scrapbook work, like pasting color photos or magazine visuals of the flowers you want can be next. You can even get professional and measure the size of beds and draw this to scale in your plan. The following hints can make a progressive difference.

1. Plant tall plants at the rear, next those of medium height and then shorter ones up front. Island beds could have tall plants in the center gradually sloping down in height, all around. Enclose this in a low, green border for effect and neatness.

2. Since annuals allow wider choice with respect to color and type, plant a two-toned or tri-color garden one spring. This will help focus and narrow your choice. Experiment with a purple and pink combo or a yellow, blue and white combination that involves many types of flowers of similar shades.

3. Use different characteristics like spiky, airy and feathery flowers such as Indian paintbrush, Capers, Cornflower or Lady Lace together with fuller flowers such as Salvia, Petunias, Calendulas or Poppies, to blend with tiny flower heads like Daisies or Garden Geraniums.

4. Lastly, taking off flowers that are two or three day old blooms, will encourage the plants to increase flower production hence giving your garden, a continuously fresh and young look.

If you like Vegetables....These pages might also interest you:

Allium Directory, Amaryllis Directory, Begonia Directory, Crocus Directory, Daffodils Directory, Dahlia Directory, Hyacinth Directory, Iris Directory, Lily Directory, Tulip Directory

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