Different Types of Flower Gardens

Planting a flower garden in spring is one of the most enjoyable events of each year. Flower gardens can be filled with a wide variety of flowers, plants, or even flowering vegetables, shrubs or bushes. One of the most enjoyable ways to have fun with flower gardens is to create something different each spring. This gives you variety from one year to the next, and also allows you to experiment with different types of flowers to see how they grow, and how well they look in your yard and garden design.

There are many ways to create a flower garden, so we'll look at several types here.

1. A wild flower garden is a wonderful way to get a large variety of gorgeous flowers quickly. Wild flower gardens are usually started by seed, and those seed packs often come with twenty or more types of flower seeds in them. This is a quick and easy way to plant larger flower garden beds or areas.

Wild flower gardens usually give you a colorful display of flowers from spring through fall. Some will bloom early while the others are still growing, and by the time the early bloomers start dying off, more will start putting in new blooms of their own. Then there are the late bloomers, which give you color and beauty just when you think you won't have any more flowers in your garden this year.

Wild flower gardens are also excellent for attracting butterflies, bees and hummingbirds to your garden, plus they often provide wonderful scents at various blooming times too.

2. Annual flower gardens are the best choice for getting color established quickly. They're also a lot of fun when you want to change your landscaping design each year. Annuals are flowers which live and bloom for one season only, then they must be replaced the following year. Annuals are often bought in small starter sized pots though, so you can put them in the ground the day you buy them, and have gorgeous, showy colors right from the start.

3. Perennial flower gardens are gardens which will continue blooming each year by themselves. Some perennial flower garden plants will bloom for two to three years before they need to be replaced, while others will continue blooming for many years to come.

Perennial flower gardens don't always bloom the first year though, particularly if you start your plants by seed. If you buy perennial flowers from a local nursery or garden center though, and they're mature enough already, they'll bloom the first year.

Mixing perennials and annuals into your flower garden is one of the best ways to get a very attractive flower garden started though. By putting both annuals and perennials into the same flower garden at the same time, you'll have blooms throughout the first year's growing season, then by the following spring you'll have blooms coming up from the perennials too.

4. Shade flower gardens are another wonderful option, particularly for yards which have spaces in them which are covered in heavy shade. Heavy shade areas of any yard often tend to be a bit bare and ugly looking, but they're the ideal place to start a shade flower garden. Many shade loving plants such as hostas will produce flowers year after year, plus they'll give you some really interesting colors and textures when they're not flowering too.

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