How to choose flowers for the flower garden

 Choosing plants for flower beds, should take into account the degree of illumination area on which they will be placed. If the color is supposed to decorate a well-lit corner of the garden, it is necessary to give preference to light-loving plants: tulips, pelargoniums, chrysanthemums, daisies and petunias. If plenty of light in the selected corner of the garden combined with rocky or sandy soil in a flower bed will feel perfectly plants traditionally used for rock gardens design: various kinds of saxifrage, stonecrops, undersized species carnations. For the site, located in the penumbra, suitable primrose, nasturtium, begonia, forget-me. Flower garden, located in the shade, decorate aquilegia, Ajuga reptans, Asarum, Pulmonaria, host. Decorating moist shaded area is best done Astilbe, ferns and Cupeño Language.

To create a flower bed that looks decorative throughout the summer season, you will need to combine plants, flowering at different times. Create a spot of color in the spring to help tulips, including both early-flowering varieties, and those that bloom in the late spring or early summer. Later begin to bloom irises, a number of varieties of roses, creeping phlox, snapdragon, sweet tobacco, petunia. The diversity of varieties of asters and dahlias allow decorative flower garden to save at the end of the summer.

When you select should take into account the form to arrange a flower garden and plant height. For carpet beds, borders or border plants fit the same height. Breaking tiered flower bed or mixborder, you can combine a tall plant, which will form the top tier, with stunted flowers. To create a top-tier often used delphinium and rudbeckia, in the middle tier should place irises, Astilbe and host. The lower level is created undersized phlox, pinks and groundcover.