Plant Wildflowers In Your Flower Garden
The best plants for your garden are wildflowers, perennials, ground covers, and biennials. These are the basics when it comes to choosing what plants will best fit your needs and preferences. Wildflowers will provide year-round beauty, and they can be as colorful as they are fragrant. This is one reason that they have been popular for many centuries, because they are so easy to care for.
The first consideration is size. Do you want a small flower garden on a window sill, or one with a tall stick in the middle of your yard? Consider how much sun and shade your flower garden will get before deciding on the size. If you cannot plant on soil, then planters and planter boxes are an excellent choice. A square foot of flower bed space will give your plants enough room to spread out. Make sure to check on moisture levels and water availability during the warmer parts of the year, because wildflowers can quickly dry up if the conditions are not ideal.
The next step is determining whether you will be using annuals, perennials, biennials, or a combination. Annuals are generally smaller plants that don’t grow very far. They are easy to care for, but don’t create any color change or blooming period. Biennials are another type of wildflower. These plants grow and bloom for one year, producing a colorful bloom in spring, and then producing a second bloom in summer.
If you would prefer to plant a mixture of wildflowers, here are some good choices: California Poppies, Spring Flowers, Creeping Mazus, Wild Daffodils, Giant Magnolia, Purple Alyssum, Aster, Bulrush, and Canada Lily. Be aware that although Canada Lily and Royal Alyssum are technically annuals, they actually have underground roots that will keep growing year after year and bloom for many years. In fact, you may even have a hybrid of two varieties if you do enough research. For more information about the various plants mentioned, look at my website.
There are many more types of wildflowers available, too. Try planting other plants besides wildflowers, such as Morning Glory, Blue Alyssum, Daisy, and more. Try different combinations, too. For example, try planting a wide variety of blue and purple flowers next to each other, or a wide variety of red flowers next to some white or cream flowers. You can use wildflowers in the same arrangement with other plants, or you can rearrange the arrangement a little bit. Just make sure that your garden is not blocked by a tall fence or other structure.
Wildflowers come in many different colors and shapes, so it’s easy to match them to existing plants in your garden or to create something totally unique. Try pairing a pair of Morning Glory plants with a pair of Blue Alyssum plants. Try planting Sweet Pea with a plant that looks similar, like Bleeding Heart. Just be sure that the colors do not clash too much. Different colors can help to add visual interest in your arrangement. Be careful not to place too many wildflowers next to other plants; you could hurt or kill the plants you’re trying to show off.
Wildflowers do not have to be all black. If you really want to get rid of the black veins on your plants, you can buy clip-art wildflowers instead. Clip-art does not require any gardening knowledge and can be used on most home computers. Wildflower clip-art is usually free, so you can experiment with different colors, shapes, and patterns.
If you are a beginner and you don’t know how to plant your own wildflowers, there are many books available to help you get started. Simply take a walk outside in your neighborhood and look for wildflowers. You will probably find many wildflower bushes or plants, and once you see how beautiful they are, you’ll never want to be without them again!