Seasonal Gardening

We all want our flower beds to be pretty all season long. When choosing flowers for seasonal gardening you want a variety of plants and flowers for for blooms and garden interest all season long. Hardy native flowers are always a good choice. A combination of wildflowers, native grasses and green house flowers will help to keep your garden or patio pots lovely throughout the year.

Seasonal Garden Tips

• When planning your garden, use large splashes of color with the smaller flowers tucked in among the edges.
• If you are planning a patio garden, pots of different sizes grouped together will make a lovely display.
• When watering your garden, it is best to deep soak from the bottom rather than watering with a sprayer.
• The spring and the fall is a good time to ready your garden for the coming season. In the Spring it is time to weed, prune, fertilize and mulch flower beds for the summer month to come. In the Fall much for winter protection, plant spring bulbs, prune damaged plants, divide perennial flowers.

Here is a handy chart that will help in selecting flowers
for blooms season long.

Flowers may bloom a little earlier or later depending on your region.