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The number one questions beginners ask is how to plant flowers. The answers could fill a huge book. Let’s take a look at how to plant annual flowers. Annual flowers tend to be flashy and colorful and offer the beginning gardener (well, any gardener) a great sense of satisfaction. Annuals are versatile. You can test out the color patterns with them because they are only with us for a season.
For a quick and easy annual flower bed, find a spot in your yard and get started planting it. You have to make sure the soil is loose and well nourished. Add manure, compost, or fertilizer. Turn it over with a spade. Rake it smooth. While you are doing this, decide on your color scheme. Then bring in the annuals from the local nursery.
The biggest challenge is deciding on which flowers to grow. The range of choices in annuals is wide. You can have so many varieties, colors, shapes, sizes, and textures, that you likely will want one of each. Let the location of your garden be your best guide in the how to grow flowers enterprise. If it is in a shady place, then get annuals that thrive in shade. If the garden is in a sunny spot, get sun loving plants.
If you are overwhelmed by choices, make it really simple and get one kind of plant. The first happy garden I had was nothing but purple petunias but I used to get such a great feeling looking at this thick bed of purple.
Plant the flowers according to their eventual height. If the bed is against a wall or fence, put the tall plants at the back and slope the heights down towards the front of the garden. If the garden is in the center of the yard, put the tall plants in the center and slope down to low rising plants at the edges.
Water the plants thoroughly after planting and keep them moist but not drenched for the first few weeks. Don’t worry about fertilizer at this point. Thjere is enough in the soil to get them going, if you added the compost or fertilizer that you needed before you planted them.
Everyone can learn how to plant flowers if they do the little jobs first, like thinking about the colors they want, prepare the bed, follow the instructions on the plants that they buy, and keep them watered.
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