Back Yard Flower Gardens

Flowers in your yard and around your home create a beautiful colorful atmosphere to your landscape.
They can be arranged in flower beds or in border plantings. These include varieties of both annuals
and perennials.

Perennials In the Back Yard Garden

Perennials are flowers that come up every year from the same roots. Some of these flowers grow for two years and then they can reseed themselves. They grow throughout the summer and fall and prefer a half day of sun. Many perennials are adapted to certain conditions including shady spots, moist locations, hill tops and even water gardens. Perennials blend into border plantings where shrubs are the main focus. Tall flowers can be planted behind low shrubs, short ones in front of taller shrubs and in between shrubs. This provides color and brightness to the normally
green border plantings.

Some perennials that might work for you may include chrysanthemums, foxgloves, day lilies, irises, peonies and violets.

Annuals In the Back Yard Garden

Annuals are flowers usually grown from seed which is planted every spring. They blossom during the summer and fall and die in the frosts of the year. Replanting annuals every spring provides the opportunity to change your color arrangement and plant different choices every year. They also work well in window boxes and porch flower pots.

A few easy to care for favorite annuals are petunias,geraniums, impatiens and alyssum which are low to medium height plants. Taller varieties include sunflowers, cosmos, salvia and zinnas.

Arrangement of a Back Yard Flower Garden

Perennials may be better suited to borders while annuals work best in flower beds. To create the
effect desire, it may be wise to interlace both types of flowers to provide a colorful display during the
growing season. Perennials have a definite period of flowering, while annuals generally flower continuously.

Another group of flowering plants are grown from bulbs and tubers. Some bulbs can remain in the ground all year and come up in the spring. They are planted in the fall and include tulips, crocuses, daffodils and hyacinths. Some tubers must be dug up in the fall and replanted in the spring. These include begonias, dahlias, gladiolas and canna.

No garden is complete without roses and they deserve a spot of their own in your back yard flower garden. There are many varieties of rose bushes and they come in a wide range of colors. Roses require special care and need to be pruned every year. Spring pruning is necessary for continuous blooming and large blossoms. They also need to be protected from diseases and in-
sects. Even with the special care required, they are high on the list of “must-have” plants.

After all of your hard work and endeavors, you will be able to walk through a beautiful, colorful and peaceful back yard flower garden you have created yourself.

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