How to Identify Garden Flowers

Garden flowers come in a wide variety of colors, textures, heights and scents. They can help enhance your yard by adding variety and color so that your home doesn't look like the one next door. Learning to identify garden flowers will help you to decide which you like best for your garden.

• Shape: Garden flowers come in a variety of shapes. The most common shapes of garden flowers include bells, trumpets, bowls and saucer shapes. This is one way of identifying a garden flower instead of a wildflower.


• Color: Most garden flowers come in a wider variety of colors such as white, pink, purple, red, black and yellow. There are various hues of each of these flowers as well. Most wildflowers are white, yellow or pink because of the amount of sun they get and the areas they live in.


• Height: The overall height of garden flowers is significantly taller than wildflowers. Many garden flowers can grow to be as tall as the average human adult. The flowers are often larger as well because they are well fed and fertilized unlike flowers that grow in the wild and are left unattended.


• Petals: Besides the daisy, which is still considered a wildflower even though it is grown in the garden, most garden flowers have between five and eight petals. The petal shapes can be most anything.


• Texture: Unlike a wild flower, garden flower's textures vary from being smooth to hairy. Many of the flower petals and leaves feel soft and fuzzy unlike flowers grown in the wild that either sting or are a smooth texture.


• Annual and Perennial: Perennial garden flowers grow back each year like clockwork. This is the same for wildflowers. Annual flowers are those that you have to replant each year. Your garden can have both to have a full array of color, textures and scents.