Adding Pinks & Reds to Your Flower Garden

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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Tulips are probably the second most favorite garden flowers to grow, and like roses, these too come in a variety of shades of both red and pink. There are many other types of red and pink flowers to choose from though, so we’ll take a look at several of those here…

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Garden Tip...

Probably the most important matter to be observed in growing house-plants is that of watering them. The cultivator should know just when to water, and to give it where it will do the most good. Amateur florists often exhibit much poor judgment in watering. It is the habit of some to keep the soil about their plants constantly soaked with water, and they wonder why they are not thrifty or healthy. These cultivators do not stop to consider that such treatment is unnatural, and will have an effect contrary to what is desired. There are those who resort to the opposite extreme, and keep their plants all the time in a perishing condition of dryness, which is even worse than if they were watered to death. If we will observe how judiciously Nature distributes the sunshine and shadow, the periodical rains, and the refreshing dews, we will learn an important lesson.
~ James Sheehan
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Amaryllis - Like tulips and roses, these flowers are often grown in cutting gardens, so the beautiful flowers can be put on display inside the house as often as possible. They can be grown indoors or out, and they’re resistant to deers outside too. Various species of the Amaryllis bloom in deep, bright red colors too. Try out the Red Peacock, Red Lion, and Ferrari varieties for the deepest splashes of red blooms.

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Garden Tip...

The proper regulation of the atmosphere as to moisture and temperature, is one of the most important points to be observed in cultivating plants in the parlor, or window-garden. Plants will not flourish, bloom, and be healthy, in a dry, dusty atmosphere, even though the best of care otherwise may be bestowed upon them.
~ James Sheehan
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Astilbe - These are another type of plant which can be found in various shades of deep red. Other related colors include peaches and pinks too. These feathery flowers stand up tall on stalks above the plants which produce them. The flower stalks tend to attract hummingbirds, and the foilage is quite interesting in the winter time too.

Astilbe - Astible ‘Visions in Red’
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The Jacobean Lily, or Aztec Lily, produces amazing blood red flowers which bloom very well in the spring time. This flower can be grown outdoors in the garden bed, in containers on the patio, or as an indoor house plant.

Spiraea ‘Magic Carpet’ - This plant will grow to about one and one half feet tall, and spread about two feet wide. It produces a deep pink to red colored flower cluster in early summer. By fall, the leaves start turning a reddish color of their own, and often this plant will stay colorful through November.

Shrubs - Spiraea Shibori - Gallon
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