10 tips to get started with flowers
Day by day, from summer to autumn, the most beautiful and attractive areas of my yard are the flower beds. That’s where one color wave follows another, with bees and butterflies competing for nectar-bearing flower levels, and I check out new anniversaries for me and the insects for fun.
Advice from the beginning is that if you start with flowers, each species will need help to claim its place. If you plant a handful of flower seeds in open ground, you will get a lot of weeds and some flowers. But by following the tips I learned hard below, you can expect success in your first year as it is offered in seasonal order.
1. Choose a trusted site
I found that you do not need a large bed to play with flowers, and two or three small flower gardens are more manageable than a large garden. Sites for planting, weeding, mulching, and watering are easy. As the front edge of the vegetable garden, my front door garden is now a pollinating bed. I tried to use a rock slope for the flowers, but I could not weed it out. Trial and error, you know?
2. sow some hardy annuals
You do not need to dig your beds immediately, but prepare the open space for planting larkspur and poppies, which violates planting and should be sown directly. Six weeks after sowing, cover the planting area with a row and cover with a tunnel so that the small seedlings emerge quickly.
3. Winter sowing seeds in bottles
Many perennial and twenty-year-old flowers can be started from seed using winter sowing techniques, deceiving the seeds into thinking that they have endured the entire winter. Winter sowing is a great way to grow Baptista, Echinacea, forget-me-not (myosotis), hollyhocks, and rose campion (lychnis).
4. Create a design
You can be endlessly creative here, but I get the best results by combining perennials with annuals. I have plenty of room to play with high-blooming annuals such as calendulas, marigolds, or zinnias with bachelor buttons and single flowers, leaving large gaps between deer-resistant perennials (Augustus, asters, cadmium, cauliflower, monarda, and valerian). Change your design from year to year to experiment with new colors and patterns.
5. Prepare for perennials
Once the weather warms up and the soil dries out, start making places for perennials. You can cover the ground with thick mulch newspapers or cardboard boxes or use other methods when preparing the native species for planting.
6. Share and share the same
Every place has a few perennials that are very well adapted, widely grown, and easily accessible by networking with local gardeners. At the place where I live, the single Korean chrysanthemum shown above will continue to bloom even after the autumn frosts, and the beautiful blue Augustus that started in a local garden and now grows to ten. With all the cluster-producing perennials, spring is the best time to share plant sections with friends and neighbors.
7. Continue the blues
The color blue goes with everything, so blue or lavender bits are always welcome in the flower garden. Cool-season anniversaries including Blue Bachelor Buttons, Blue Clary Sage, phacelia, and Chinese Format-Me-Not are worth the effort to get started indoors in late winter. Among the perennial plants, Augustus, Baptisia, Catmint, and many other varieties of salvia bloom in blue and attract a large number of pollinators.
8. Look at the pollination favorites
Pollen addicts are constantly on the lookout for nectar-bearing plants and may surprise you if they find your favorite. Make it a habit to see which flowers the bees and butterflies visit and which are ignored.
9. Assistant recipients
Some flowers will reappear for many seasons with a little help, and it is incredibly convenient to dig up and transplant seedlings of calendula, cosmos, Johnny-jump-ups (violas), marigold, sunflower, or zinnia that appear in your own garden.
10. Keep trying new things
This is the best part to start with flowers because there are so many species to try. Last year I had three new ones I grew the species and was captivated by the beauty, resilience, and insect curiosity displayed in the crimson flax (Linum grandiflorum). With flowers, each season is a new adventure.
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