Having a beautiful garden can be extremely rewarding, though it will take some work to keep it at its best. When you first set it up you will need to do some thinking about the kinds of flowers you want to look after. You will then need to take care to maintain the levels of water, sunlight and nutrients.
It goes without saying that your flowers need water to live. This can come from Mother Nature, though you may also use artificial sprinklers. Be careful not to over-water your plants as this will do more harm than good.
As well as keeping your plants watered, they will need enough light to develop properly. This means you should make sure the sun can access your garden, and you can also increase their development by using fertilizers in the earth when planting your flowers.
When choosing what to put in your flower garden, remember that different flowers will grow at different times of the year. Perennial flowers can live for as long as three years, and they go through cycles of growth where you should always insure you are deadheading the flowers that are becoming week to help the plant stay healthy overall. This simply means removing the flowers that are dying to make room for healthy new ones.
Using a mix of annuals and perennials can make your garden a lot more interesting, but providing you with an assortment of different flowers as well as making sure there is always something flowering at any one time. However, bear in mind that this will keep you busy in your garden through the whole year.
When gardening remember that many insects can do your flowers a lot of good and not just harm them. The insects help your flowers to reproduce, and will help kill off any other types of insect that want to do harm to your flowers. Using insecticides may even damage your seeds, so instead make sure your earth is well fertilized.
