Great Flower Garden Ideas & How To Plan Your Flower Garden Design

If you want a flower garden design that will give you years of pleasure and enjoyment then you need to accumulate good gardening ideas and build them into your flower garden design from the beginning. Gardening is probably the most important of pastimes worldwide and you can imagine the wealth of ideas and gardening designs that have been accumulated over the years. So let's learn from what others have discovered before us when it comes to creating our own flower garden design ...

This introduction to design and gardening ideas will cover the following ...

Questions to ask yourself before you start like what do you want to achieve, how much can you afford to spend and who's going to look after the flower garden when it's blooming and looking beautiful? Specific design considerations ...

  1. Soil, its quality and consistency

  2. Creating a wish list of plants and making sure they are suitable for your area in addition to considering size, color and other factors

  3. Creating focal points to catch the eye

  4. Creating a simple garden design plan on paper

  5. Placing plants

  6. Caring for plants

Relax it's not that complicated at all ...

For many people the act of flower garden design is actually more pleasurable than the gardening itself. Some even use sophisticated computer design programs and spend their lives just literally designing because they love the power of the gardening software itself. They even make a living out of creating flower garden designs this way. For us however the design is the starting point ... it's the ideas we want to be able to create a real live flower garden of our dreams.

Start by asking yourself a few simple questions ...

Why am I creating this design, do I really want a flower garden or maybe a vegetable garden? Alternatively you might have a desire to create a specific type of flower garden for butterfly attraction as an example. Maybe your idea is for a beautiful rose garden to give scented areas or blazes of colour or maybe you want to cut the roses for indoor use. People create spring gardens or autumn gardens or Japanese type gardens ... there is an endless list of shrubs and flower garden possibilities so try to focus on one or 2 main ideas. You may even have ideas of creating a water garden

Your garden will need ongoing care and attention. Will you be doing it? Will you be employing an outside service? If you're going to look after your own flower garden then how much time will you have to do the actual work? If you don't have much time then maybe gardening in containers is a real alternative to large planted herbaceous borders that need significant maintenance to look their best. Consider smaller planted flower bed areas and think maybe in terms of wild flowers (also called meadow, cottage or praire flowers) that need less care and attention. Whatever you do don't remove all the lawn and replant unless you really have carefully considered this care aspect.

If you have lots of money then this question becomes a bit superfluous but most of us don't so think carefully of how much you can afford and are willing to spend on your flower and garden dream. Of course you don't need to go out and buy all your plant needs at once but make a plan to gradually add to your collection over time. In any case even the best garden designs have a habit of changing once plants actually start to grow. Do try to build into your flower garden design both perennial (plants that live more than 1 year) and annual type plants (plants that only live for 1 year or season). Perennials are the actual back-drop to many colorful garden creations where the color is the result of employing annuals in specific planting arrangements.