Flower Garden Plans

When it's time to start planning your spring garden, there are many resources and ideas around for help. You'll find a variety of flower garden plans and layouts online, in magazines, and in your local garden centers. There are also many ways to come up with your own unique flower garden plans based on your personal likes, dislikes, and the area you live in.

What type of garden plan you come up with will also depend heavily on where you want to plant the new flowers too. If for instance, you have a heavy shaded area in your yard which barely gets even a little bit of filtered sunlight, you'll need to plan a flower garden for that area that's based on shade loving plants. Many shade loving plants will create flowers and blooms, but they also tend to have very colorful and unusual leaves and branches too. Knowing the characteristics of the flowers and plants you plan to put into your garden will help you design the best for your particular needs. Let's look at several of the easiest flower garden plans here...

1. Shade gardens. These are wonderful flower gardens to plan for use in any area of your yard which has a lot of shade. Often the shadiest areas are the most bare until you actually plant something there which will thrive. So create a shade flower garden plan based around the large variety of beautiful hosta plants - both flowering kinds and ornamental kinds.

2. Wild Flower Gardens - These are quite possibly the easiest flower gardens to plan, because all you have to do is pick the spot you want the flowers to grow in. You can populate a meadow or large back yard with flowers, or section off specific areas with flower beds and borders. And that's really all the planning you need for wild flower gardens. Since the beauty of these is in the scattered way the flowers grow, you simply scatter some seeds around the flower bed you want as a wild flower garden, and then water them regularly. They'll sprout randomly and naturally, creating a wonderful burst of color and scent throughout the growing seasons.

3. Specialty Garden Plans - When you want a specialty flower garden plan - say a flowering herb garden, or a tulip garden, you'll want to use a little more care with your planning steps. One thing you'll need to consider in planning these types of gardens is how large the full sized plants and flowers will be. The largest or tallest growing flowers should be planned for planting at the back of your flower garden. More medium sized blooms should go in the middle, and smaller flowers and plants should go at the front.

If you're using raised flower beds or just decorative garden borders, you might also want to plan for room to plant ground covers and trailing vines around the edges. As these grow, they'll trail over your garden wall or border, and look much more naturalized... not to mention gorgeous!

4. Color Garden Plans - Sometimes you simply want to plan a flower garden based around specific colors, or color combinations. When creating a garden plan with color in mind, first decide if you want a specific pattern or flow. If for instance, you're planning to create a garden full of yellow and red flowers, you'll need to decide if you want those colors staggered: Red then yellow then red then yellow and so on, or if you want clumps of each color: 5 yellow blooms next to 5 red blooms for instance.

There are many different ways to plan your own flower garden, and hopefully these have given you some great ideas to start with.

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