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Flowers Grab interest and attention
A seasonal floral Display 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.
What purpose does a seasonal flower bed serve in the garden?
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.
Why you should use a Floral Design
Carefully matching plants to the site and carefully selecting good companion plants (for mixed flowerbeds) is 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 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, 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 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 the 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 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. The 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.
- Cool colors are good for close-up viewing and warm colors are good for more dramatic displays in your garden even when viewed from a distance.
- Planting warm-colored annuals around a warm area will make it seem even hotter. However, if you plant with plenty of cool green, blue, violet, and pastel colors, the area won’t be any cooler, but it will seem so and be a more inviting place.
- Be careful of cool and warm color combinations. If your garden is primarily cool-colored, a mass of flame-orange zinnias in the background would divert attention from the more subtle colors in the foreground and disrupt the harmonious effect.
Foliage and Form
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 various 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 is 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 with 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.
Now you are ready to design your new flower bed!
Landscape color can have an incredible impact on your landscape.
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 displays in coastal areas and formal and informal landscapes. The seasonal flower display will ensure that the outdoors is always in full bloom no matter what the season is.
Seasonal Flower Display Options
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.
Mixing Perennials & Annuals
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 displays. 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 a few of the many varieties of seasonal flower displays for spring. Bluets, breeches, spiderwort, and prairie sun drops are great during summer while the common blue violet, yarrow, hedge bindweed, and loosestrife are best during fall.
With an Imagination and design Seasonal Floral Displays offer excellent color options for all four seasons.
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.
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With proper design, quality plants and proper planting techniques a Seasonal Floral Display can make all the difference.
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