Great Advice For Home Flowers

Tips for Growing Home Flowers

Flowers at home are fun to grow and do not require a lot of skill to get great results. With thousands of varieties, colors, sizes, textures and scents, there are no shortages of types to try in your backyard. It can get a little confusing when making selections and figuring the best place in the yard for your flowers. A little advice about annuals and perennials helps when choosing the best flowers at home for your needs and where they should be planted. Knowing whether a flower needs full shade, partial sun or full sun makes all the difference in the number of blossoms in your flower garden.

 

Step 1

Let's clear up the mystery between home flowers that are annuals and perennials. There is a big difference between the two types of flowers. Annuals will only live for one season and then they die. Perennials will live for several years. Each perennial has a different life cycle and some may live for just a few years and others possibly as long as 10.

Maybe it is because annuals only live for one season that they display the best flower shows in comparison to perennials. That is not to say that perennials are not beautiful flowers. However, annuals are the better choice for producing larger number of blossoms in a short amount of time. People who like to try a lot of flower varieties usually prefer annuals because they can replant all the flower beds with new varieties each year.

The advantage of growing perennial flowers at home is that the portions of the flower plant that you see above ground will die back each fall, but the roots remain alive throughout the winter. Each spring the root systems of perennial home flowers will send up new shoots for new flowers. Some folks prefer perennial flowers because they do not have to replant them each spring, which can be a lot of work.

 

 

 

Step 2

Plant flowers at home in the right place. When you visit garden centers to select flowers for your yard, make sure to read the care labels carefully. If the label says the flower needs full sun, then that is where it will produce the most blossoms. Most full sun flowers will perform poorly if you plant them in too much shade. A plant that requires shady conditions usually dies in full sun because it cannot take the heat and tolerate the rays of the sun.

 

Step 3

Think outside the box when designing flower beds. It is easy to get stuck in a routine where you plant the same annuals each year, but you might want to consider some new options. Try planting flowers in flower boxes to give them a whole new look. This is a great way to experiment with new flowers and special soil or fertilizer requirements because the flowers are self-contained in one area.

If you have never grown bulbs, you might love some of these flowers at home. Bulbs not only put out gorgeous spring blossoms, but the bulbs or rhizomes multiply underneath the soil. This is a relatively inexpensive way to double or triple the number of flowers you have in a short time.

Try a variety of different colored flowers in several flower beds. Experiment with textured flowers for a new look. It is also fun to grow flowers at home that are edible such as marigolds, lavender, chives, thyme and nasturtiums.

Tips

Always buy appropriate flowers for your plant growing zone. If you plant flowers at home for the wrong zone they may live for a little while, but will usually die. Remove the old blossoms from flowers to keep your flower garden looking good and save them. Let the blossoms dry and harvest the seeds for planting next year.

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