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Flower Gardening

From annuals to perennials, flower gardening can be a world unto itself. Whether you’re starting flowers from seed, landscaping with flowers to add a splash of color and personality, or just trying to understand the difference between an annual vs. perennial, give your garden the best possible start by checking out the flower gardening tips below. Happy growing!

Community Gardening Offers Many Benefits
There’s another side of me that relishes the opportunity to experience the joys of gardening with others even more. There is a certain excitement and energy in sharing such a wonderful activity. Community gardening is the perfect way to scratch that gardening itch. And I love it for even more than simply the social interaction of a shared passion. Gardens do bring out the best in people and community gardens are a great place to bring it all together.

Add Color and Fragrance with Lilies
You’ve eaten all the eggs and chocolate bunnies you can handle and the only thing left is that Easter Lily you received as a gift. You begin to wonder, “Now what do I do?” After blooming, Easter Lilies (Lilium longiflorum) can be planted directly in your garden in full sun or partial shade and will bloom again in late summer of the following year.

Starting Plants from Seed Adds to the Pleasure
Starting flowers and vegetables from seed is a great activity, especially when you just can’t wait any longer to get your hands dirty before spring. It’s an inexpensive project, lots of fun for the whole family and the varieties of seed available from multiple sources far exceeds what you can find locally.

Butterfly Habitat Essentials
In the warm summer months and even into early fall, it’s easy to tell the gardens that are the serious butterfly attractors. Where butterflies abound, it’s usually not by chance. They’re attracted by specific elements, all which can easily be added to any garden.

Tips for Buying Annuals
The allure of those beautiful annuals calling our name as we drive by the nursery, or pull into the home improvement store can be too much. We probably didn’t even have flowers on our shopping list. Now I’m as weak as the next guy when it comes to impulse buying, and I’m an admitted plantaholic.

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Did You Know:

The biggest factors affecting the success of your annual or perennial flowers are the amount of sunlight, water quantity and soil quality. >>DETAILS

Bright Idea..

For continuous blooms and more compact growth, remove the spent flowers from your plants, before they go to seed. This will encourage the plant to send out new flowers. Repeat this process often to enjoy great performance all season long.

Quick Tips

Deadheading is the term used to describe the removal of spent flower blooms from plants. By picking or cutting these old blooms from your annuals, you stimulate the plant to produce new flower growth. >>DETAILS