How to Get an Instant Flower Garden

Spring is here and we're all ready to have gorgeous flowers blooming away in our yards and gardens. For some of us, we just want the flowers to make our yards look beautiful instantly. We don't want to wait weeks or maybe months for seeds and plants to grow and start blooming colorful flowers.

And thankfully, it is possible to have an instant flower garden. Well it's as close to instant as you can get, it might actually take you a few hours to complete depending on how large of a garden you want. It all starts though, with a short drive to your local garden center.

This article will assume you have nothing prepared yet, but you know where you want your flower garden to be. You'll need to measure that area before leaving for the garden center too though, because the length and width will allow you to put a nice border around your new flower garden bed.

Step #1: This is optional, but it really adds a lot to the finished look of your instant flower garden. Pick out a flower bed border. Borders can be simple bricks, cobblestones, or even decorative little fences made from plastic. I suggest buying enough bricks or stones to stack them two or three high, because this will make creating the instant flower garden easier.

Another optional choice: Choose some mulch or bark to protect your instant flower bed once it's been created.

Step #2: Pick out your garden soil. If you live in a dry area, try some of the soil which has water crystals in it. These crystals absorb water, and slowly release them back to your flowers over time. This means you don't have to water your flowers as often, and you don't risk them dying on you from getting too dried out. An enriched soil with fertilizer in it is also nice, because it gives your new flower garden just the extra food it needs to really thrive. Buy enough soil to create several inches of depth in your new flower garden bed.

Step #3: Pick your plants. Buying the small starter seedling plants is less expensive and allows you to choose from a larger variety of flowers. Most of these also already have flowers in bloom on them too, and this is required to make your own instant flower garden. Choose enough plants for the size of your bed, without making it too crowded.

Step #4: Take it all home. Put your new border around the outside of the area you plan to place the instant flower garden. If you bought extra materials to build it up in height a little, put those in place too. You'll end up with a small retaining wall which will make your instant flower garden be in a slightly raised bed, and save you a lot of digging.

Step #5: Dump at least three quarters of the new soil into the flower bed, inside the borders. Spread it evenly. Optional: You can do a big of digging and weeding first if you'd like, to help loosen the soil that will be under your flower bed. You can also spread newspapers before putting the new soil in place, to help prevent weed growth.

Step #6: Place your small starter seedling flower plants in any arrangement you'd like inside the bed. Dig a small hole in the new soil you just placed, then take the flower plant out of it's plastic container, and place it into the hole. Use some of the remaining soil to pack around the new plant, dividing it evenly so you'll have enough for each of your new plants.

If you bought mulch or bark, then spread that evenly around once the flowers are all planted. Cover as much of the soil as you can with it, to help keep it from drying out.

Then you're done! If you followed these simple steps, you now have an instant flower garden with beautiful, colorful flowers.