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A seasonal flower bed is a garden bed that can be changed from season to season using annual bedding plants and/or other types of plants. In case you were wondering, annual plants are those which typically live for only one season; either during the cool season or the warm season.
Seasonal flower beds, also commonly called annual flower beds, are great for providing seasonal, vibrant splashes of color to your property. With a wide selection of plant varieties and flower colors available, you can change your color scheme in your landscape from season to season! Pansies are a good example of a cool season annual while marigolds are warm season annuals.
Carefully matching plants to the site and carefully selecting good companion plants (for mixed flowerbeds) are important. If you ignore these imperatives, your results will likely be disappointing. On the other hand, if you take a little time to carefully design your flower beds the results can be truly spectacular!
Remember, in most cases, there is more than one way to arrange plants in the flower bed, and that many of the "rules" of design were made to be broken. What's most important is that your annual flowerbeds look and feel good to you.
Location
You can plant a flower bed anywhere on your property but, most importantly, you want to plant flowerbeds where you and others can see them! I often plant flowerbeds to accentuate entryways, to border landscape beds, sidewalks, or pathways, around mailboxes, or near patios, porches or other outdoor sitting or living areas where they will be enjoyed while relaxing outdoors.
Choosing plants
Match plants to the sun
Break this rule at your own peril...or the peril of your plants. Before designing your flower bed, choose plants that will thrive in the amount of sunlight the flower bed will receive during a day.
Size matters
Select sizes of plants that fit the scale of your flower bed. Avoid planting large- or wide-growing plants in a tiny flower bed. Also, keep height and width in mind. Height is important, because you don't want to hide low-growing plants with tall ones. Depending on from what angle the flower bed will be viewed, use taller plants as a background or centerpiece for low-growing plants.
Pay attention to soil and moisture requirements
Generally speaking, and with the exception of a few annual plants, such as Portulaca, which prefer life on the dry side, most annual bedding plants prefer a fertile, loose, moist, but well-drained soil.
Color Combinations With a wide selection of annual flower colors available, you can change your color scheme from season to season. To create visually appealing and alluring gardens you must effectively combine colors.
A color wheel is a diagrammatic way of showing relationships between colors. Colors on the right side of the wheel are warm. Colors on the left side are cool. Colors adjacent to one another are analogous. Opposite colors are complementary.
Tips for selecting your color combinations. So many varieties and colors of annuals exist that when selecting the colors you want you'll need to do some research.
Spectacular blooms grab our attention, but don't ignore the foliage plants. Many plants, such as the seemingly endless varieties of sun coleus, elephant ears, caladiums, and annual grasses display outstanding foliage colors and textures. Plants also come in a variety of shapes (also called form or habit). Some plants such as verbenas, petunias, and purslane grow into cushions, mounds, or mats while others such as purple fountain grass, salvias, angelonia, and celosia are upright and spiky, providing vertical accents in the bed. Still others such as begonias and geraniums are round and bushy.
Arrangement
In formal flowerbeds, plants are usually arranged in vertical, horizontal, or diagonal rows, or other regular patterns. In informal gardens, clumps and drifts of plants are most often planted to give the appearance of a more natural grouping. In the most informal flowerbeds, one of each of many varieties are used to fill the bed.
Specialty or theme flowerbeds
You may decide to create a certain theme for a flowerbed. For example, a moon garden might consist of only plants white flowers. A hot garden might consist of reds, oranges and yellows while a cool garden might consist of pinks, blues, and purples. You might plant a flowerbed to attract butterflies or hummingbirds. A foliage bed would consist of plants such as grasses, sun coleus, or licorice plants, known for their outstanding or unique foliage characteristics.
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Color, combined with texture, can make your landscape environments dynamic and bring focus to seasonal plants and foliage.
Even the most beautiful landscape will become a bore if it doesn’t improve or at least change a bit. That’s why to give pleasing entertainment, we strongly suggest including seasonal flower display to coastal areas, formal and informal landscapes. The seasonal flower display will ensure that the outdoor is always in full-bloom no matter what the season is.
Don’t feel guilty if you just love seeing flowers bloom but hate the leg work. We’ll do the legwork for you. With our professional and passionate hands, your garden will always have a professional and beautiful seasonal flower display. All you need to do is choose the kind of display you want and we’ll make it happen.
Flowers or flowering plants have Three general types— Annual flowers, Bulbs and Perennial flowers. Annuals grow and bloom once and then die after that however annuals provide a greater impact of color in mass plantings and most bloom all season long while perennials will grow, bloom for a shorter period, and also die but will grow back each season. But what makes annual plants wonderful for gardening is that your options can be limitless while perennials only have fewer to choose from.
Perennials don't need much care, though. Just let them die when they need to and wait for them to grow and bloom again. But annuals are better for seasonal flower display. However, this entails a lot of work.
Most annuals survive only for one season. That means replanting will be necessary each year. That's why we create a handy plan to schedule the next planting for our client's landscape.
Violets, trilliums, toothwort, cinquefoil, and spring beauty are just few of the many varieties of seasonal flower display for spring. Bluets, breeches, spiderwort, and prairie sundrop are great during summer while the common blue violet, yarrow, hedge bindweed, and loosestrife are best during fall. Winter will never stop the bloom from happening.
With proper design, quality plants and proper planting techniques a Seasonal Floral Display can make all the difference.
We take care of all the dirty work by designing, planting, fertilizing your floral display by changing up flowers through out the growing season.
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