Grow a Beautiful Garden Full of Flowers
Ideas for laying out a flower garden: planning beds and borders, combining colors and heights, and arranging plants for a longer season of bloom.
4 guides published
Learn how to plan a flower bed that has something open from spring to fall: chart what you grow by bloom period, find the gaps, and fill them with plants and simple techniques.
Plan a long bed along a fence, wall or path: how deep to make it, how to layer plants by mature height, how to group and repeat them, and which edge keeps the lawn out.
Use the color wheel to plan a harmonious bed: calm analogous schemes, lively complementary pairs, buffers of white and green, and a simple method for choosing your palette.
A simple way to plan a first flower bed: read the site, pick a shape you can reach into, repeat a few plants in drifts, contrast shapes and sketch it to scale before you buy.
