Accent Flower Gardens For Any Landscape AreaAccent flower gardens look great in any landscape area. There is nothing like walking into someone's yard and seeing beautiful landscaped gardens. To go beyond that, isn't it striking to see one or two just flower gardens? Your eyes become fixed on the vibrant colors of each individual or mass planting of different flowers. Creating your own flower beds can be simple and fun. Planning ahead on what type of plant specimens you want and what will do well in your area is very important. Many people like to intertwine annuals and perennials throughout all their beds. Think about doing a single flower garden in a dead spot in your yard. I have talked about many different size and shape gardens in several different articles and features on this website. This is just another way you can create your personality on the outside of your property. One idea is to consider doing a small garden of just cut flowers. Here is a list of twelve popular cut flowers.
These are just a few you could plant in a single garden and have fresh flowers for the entire growing season. Another idea is think about putting several different flower beds in one particular area. Create walkways connecting each bed. Make the beds small and do a mass planting of a certain variety in each bed. The other option is to have three to five different specimens per bed. Plan it in an open area, around your deck, patio, by your front porch, or even along your foundation. One of my previous clients had the crew remove all her shrubs from her foundation and we planted a combination of annual and perennial flowers all along the front. She wanted a vast amount of color throughout the year. In warmer climates, Pansies will bloom throughout the winter months. In colder climates, you can still have flowers year around if you do a small container garden inside in a sunny location. Take a look in the gallery of plants section and see some different varieties of
Annual flowers to accent your gardens and planters
and also browse through the page on
photos of perennial flowers for any style garden.
Both of these pages will give you some ideas for doing just flower beds. The one thing I do tell my clients is to think in a year term when considering flower gardens. Do you mind having dead spaces during the colder months? Adding a few evergreen shrubs around your flower beds will give you a base color year around. Below are four different varieties of a wonderful cut and mass planting flower. These four types of Sunflowers are grown by Katie Brown of Belton, South Carolina. She is a wholesale grower and owns Foothills Floral Farm. She specializes in cut and dried flowers. My favorite is the chocolate Sunflower. A very unique plant specimen for any landscape area. By the way, did you know that the state flower for Kansas in the USA is a Wild Native Sunflower? Do you know what your state flower is? Our state flower in South Carolina is the Jasmine. One recommendation to you is to think about the different seasons and how you could create beds with having flowers blooming throughout the entire growing season. Below are a couple more possibilities for you to consider. The first two pictures are a couple of types of Sedum. Sedum is a great fall flower and does well in zones three through nine. It can take full sun or part shade. Their cluster of tiny flowers in different color tones makes a great autumn garden. The second set of pictures shows you a late blooming small Lantana plant, and also a full grown fern. If you have your flower garden or gardens in a shaded area, ferns can create a great accent to the flower garden.
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