Adding Yellow & Orange to Your Flower Garden
November 23, 2008
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Adding Yellow & Orange to Your Flower Garden
Yellow is a beautiful, vibrant color that seems to be full of life and happiness. It’s an excellent color to add to your garden too, when you want to attract butterflies, hummingbirds, or other birds. Large batches of bright yellow in the garden are particularly attractive for hummingbirds.
Whether you want to create an all yellow flower garden, or you’d simply like to add splashes of yellow to your existing color mix, here are several suggestions for you…
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November 3, 2008
Adding White to Your Flower Garden
Growing white flowers in the garden creates an enchanting, almost other-worldly feel that’s particularly noticeable at night time. Even during the daylight hours though, there’s just something particularly striking about seeing gorgeous white flower blooms against the various shades of green from your foliage.
Planting white flowers throughout your garden is an excellent way to simply mix in something different to compliment all of the other colorful flowers you have growing. White flowers make excellent stand alone gardens too, so you might think about creating one flower bed which is dedicated to growing all white flowers. Another wonderful way to grow white flowers though, is as an accent to other colors.
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October 15, 2008
Adding Purple & Blue to Your Flower Garden
Many flowers bloom with a variety of colors throughout their flowering season, and some of the most beautiful are shades of purple. Now, in some cases a “purple” flower might actually look closer to a shade of red, and blue flowers don’t always look quite blue either. But getting exact matching shades is of course possible if you plant the same flowers, but getting shades of a color usually adds much more interest to the garden.
One of my favorite flowers which blooms in a pale lavendar purple color is a Morning Glory. These flowers can come in a whole host of colors, but some varieties rebloom with just certain specific colors instead. Morning glories grow on vines which will climb a trellis, fence, or bush, and they’ll even creep out across the yard in a ground cover like fashion if you let them. The flowers open early in the mornings, and close by midday.
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September 25, 2008
Adding Pinks & Reds to Your Flower Garden
No garden ever seems quite complete if it doesn’t have some shade of red or pink flowers blooming in it. It’s quite possible that red and pink are the most popular shades of flowers actually, and with good reason. There are hundreds of plants which create flower blooms in these shades, and when you have large groups of red or pink in your garden, you can’t help but have it noticed around the neighborhood.
Roses of course are possibly one of the most favorite flowers to grow in shades of red or pink, and they can of course be grown as bushes and shrubs, or you can choose to grow climbing rose vines or wild roses and miniature roses too.
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May 27, 2008
Designing Gardens With Color And Texture
One fun way to create gardens of any size, is to create one which has as much color and texture as you can possibly think of. Now, for some people, this type of garden seems a little too random or eclectic for their tastes. And it can be overdone as well. But creating a texture garden in small garden spaces particularly, such as a small corner of your yard or in a nice sized container, can give you a wonderfully unique and interesting garden design.
Choosing plants which have a variety of color and texture to them is fairly easy, but you will need to make sure they’ll be compatible for the garden space you plan to place them in. If you’re planting the flowers and plants into a container particularly, you’ll want to make sure they can all survive with the same soil, water, and sunlight requirements.
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