How to Begin a Flower Garden
Starting a flower garden is a fun and creative project to take on. Starting your flower garden will bring out your inner artist and inspire you, as you realize how fun and relaxing gardening can be. There are several steps you can take to create a beautiful flower garden.
Things You'll Need
- Shovel
- Flower seeds
- Flower plants
- Organic matter
The Garden
- Envision what you would like your flower garden to look like. You may want your flower garden to be a certain shape or have certain colors grouped together.
- Draw your design on a piece of paper, using colored pencils to mark the location of the flowers.
- Scope out a good place to plant your flower garden, taking note of how much sunlight the area receives.
- Check to see which flowers do well in sunny areas, and which flowers like more shade.
- Get rid of the grass where you plan to plant your flowers. You may do this by digging it up, or smothering it with newspapers.
- Use a shovel to dig up the dirt for your flower garden.
- Mix the soil with organic matter.
- Decide what type of flowers you would like to plant. You may choose to create a theme, or to plant flowers that attract butterflies.
- Decide whether you would like to plant seeds or flower plants. You can play around with this, and plant a combination of both to see which ones thrive.
- Decide if you would like to place stones around your garden. You could also place a bird bath in the center of it, or place a nice garden bench next to it.