Flower Garden Design

When planting a new flower garden, the layout and design of your garden is very important. Planning this should be the first step you take, even before buying any starter plants or seeds, because the flower garden design you choose may be around for many years.

So when designing your flower garden, you'll want to think about how you'd like it to look through the years. If you just want a temporary or short term flower garden to see how you'll like the look, then plan an annual flower garden design. This will give you the flexibility to change your mind - and your flowers - next year.

The three most important factors involved with good flower garden designs are color, size, and compatibility.

The flowers and plants you choose to put into your flower garden should compliment each other in both color and size. There's nothing wrong with designing a flower garden full of every color you can find though, and these are actually quite beautiful when done with wild flowers. If you want a certain look to match your house or landscaping plan however, try to choose flowers to fit into, compliment, or contrast the existing design.

You could design a flower garden with all yellow flower blooms for instance. Or yellow and purple. Or red, white and blue. The options are almost endless, but knowing what color scheme you want is the first step in planning your flower garden design.

You'll need to consider bloom time when choosing your flower colors too. If you want a red, white and blue flower garden design for instance, but the red flowers bloom and die before the blue or white ones even get small buds, you might be disappointed in how the design actually looks in action.

Size is an important consideration for your flower garden design too. Not just the size of the area your flower garden will take up, but what size the flowers and plants will be at full size. You don't want to design a flower garden which has tall eighteen inch flowers in the front, and tiny little ground covers in the back where they can't be seen.

A good attractive flower garden design has taller plants and flowers at the back, medium sized ones in the front, and tiny flowers or ground cover plants in the front. Depending on your design however, you could choose to have multiple sizes in different places. You might for instance, put all your red flowers on the left, the blue in the middle, and the white on the right. Even doing this however, the design will be more attractive by planting them in a tiered fashion from back to front based on the flower's expected growth height.

Compatability is the third important thing to consider when planning your flower garden design. If you plant two or more types of flowers for instance, that have a habit of killing each other off, then your overall garden design is not going to look too pretty. Likewise, if you accidently put invasive plants into your flower garden design, these could take over the entire garden bed before the first season is out, and this will also ruin your planned design.