A Flower Garden for your Home

A Flower Garden for your Homeare: Giant flowering onion, grows 3-4 feet tall, with
Picture a constant supply of beautiful cut flowerslarge purple flowers, and blooms early spring to
for your home, or fresh cut flowers for friends,mid-summer, and Crocus's bloom in early spring,
and special occasions. Beautiful flowers at yourthough there are varieties that bloom through
disposal are possible by planting a well-stockedautumn.
flower garden.Spring Planting
To begin your flower garden, select a sunny area,Gladiolus bulbs can be planted in early spring for
as a flower garden usually requires 6 to 8 hoursbeautiful blooms from early summer through the
of direct sunlight each day. The selected areafirst frost. You can plant your gladiolus bulbs as
should be easily accessible for watering, in caseearly as two weeks before the last frost.
your climate encounters long dry spell. AnotherContinue to plant the gladiolus bulbs every two
factor for your flower garden is easy access forweeks and you will have cut flowers until the first
cutting your flowers, such as a raised flowerbed.frost.
The raised flowerbed is then accessible from allAnnuals such as snapdragons, cosmos, zinnias,
sides.etc., are also planted in early spring after the last
Fall Bulb Plantingfrost. Consider the length of time it takes your
In order to have a constant supply of flowersannual to bloom and plant accordingly so that you
available, consider when each flower blooms. Forwill have a flower bouquet right through fall.
instance, plant Daffodils and Tulip bulbs in the fallWith a little bit of planning and a little bit of work,
for the earliest spring flower. A couple of otheryour home can have beautiful cut flowers all
early spring flowers to consider for fall plantingsummer long. Good Luck!