Flower Gardens

Flower Gardens are usually created for their aesthetic and decorative qualities. They combine flowering plants of various heights, colors, textures, and fragrances to create beauty and enhance homes and businesses.

A wide variety of plants are used in flower gardens due to their various blooming seasons throughout the year.

• An Annual grows from flower bulbs or seeds, blooms, sets seed and then dies. Annuals need to be replanted each spring. Most annuals bloom continuously from spring through fall.

Popular annual flowers include Petunias, Marigolds, Zinnias and Impatiens. If you're looking for something a little more exotic than traditional bedding plants, consider Cleome (spider flower), Gazania, Catharanthus (vinca) and lisianthus (Eustoma). Some annuals are grown for their attractive foliage rather than flowers, including Coleus, Joseph's Coat and Snow-on-the-Mountain.

• A Perennial lives for three or more seasons. It may or may not be mature enough to bloom the first year from flower seeds. Perennials will need to be replaced every three to five years. Most perennials bloom for only a short period of time, one to three weeks, once a year.

Some of the most popular perennial flowers include Daylilies, Hosta, Peonies and Garden Mums. For a spikey show of blue, consider Liatris (blazing star). For a delicate bouquet of yellow, try Coreopsis 'Moonbeam.' Or for dramatic late season color, try Rudbeckia (black-eyed Susan) and Echinacea (purple coneflower). There is no end to the colors, sizes and textures available in perennials.

• A Biennial requires two years to complete it's life cycle. They grow similar to a ground vegetable the first year of the flower garden, live through the winter, and finally bloom during the second season. Once it has bloomed and set seed, it dies.

Some popular biennial flowers include Hollyhock, Stocks, Sweet Williams, Teasel, Evening Primrose, Forget-Me-Not and Honesty. Wild or Purple Foxglove is beautiful but has poisonous properties and should be planted out of harm's way. Rose Campion is a great choice for quickly establishing a border. Sweet or Dame's Rocket is a sweetly scented yet hearty self-sower.




A typical flower garden contains a mixture of perennials and biennials, which may not bloom until the following year, and annuals which are self-seeding and will return year after year, creating a permanent flowerbed. Many flower beds are designed so that blooms of specific color combinations remain consistent or present throughout different seasons.

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