Time to Start a Flower Garden in the Yard

Time to Start a Flower Garden. Anyone can start a garden; all it takes is a little soil, some plants or seeds, sunshine, and water. These are the best flower garden. I first began gardening as a child; my dad gave me a packet of seeds and showed me gardening tips on how to plant them in the ground. Ever since that time, I have continued to love gardening and still find it unique that a bit of seed and a few gardening tips can produce so much joy.

I plant a flower garden, vegetables, and fruits. I live in a semi-tropical climate that may get a couple weeks of cold weather. Most of my tender plants are grown in pots, brought in sometime around Thanksgiving, and backed out at the end of March. As a child, I lived in Michigan and knew that this was a real luxury to enjoy my plants outside for such a long season.

Flowers are known for their ability to cheer up the sick, start a romance, and bring up your spirits when you feel blue. Flowers come in wide varieties and can be grown from seed, cuttings, bulbs, or rhizomes roots), or you can purchase them grown in pots from your local nursery.

I prefer to start as many of my own from seeds and cutting. It is beautiful to know you have a "green thumb." Anyone can do it; it doesn't take a lot of skill; it just takes a little water and sunshine.

Peonies are an example of a rhizome flower; they can be purchased in a package with a single root and wood shavings to keep it moist until planting. Peonies can also be bought in pots from the nursery full grown. However, each spring, they regrow from the root. Therefore, they need to be trimmed back in the fall or early spring; most plants will have dried out and become woody.

Here is a Peony just beginning to bloom in the spring. They get tall, so I use bamboo to keep them upright. After the flowers drop off, the greenery remains for the rest of the summer.

Fruit trees are an excellent way to grow healthy produce yourself. Apples, oranges, pears, figs, the variety is endless. Trees are easy to grow and usually don't require daily watering like flowers and vegetables. When you plant a fruit tree, you produce for generations to enjoy.

Citrus trees are not just for southern gardeners. Trees can be planted in large containers; try laundry tubs or giant ceramic planters. Some rules you need to know about citrus have at least two trees to produce fruit, as they require cross-pollination to pay luscious oranges, lemons, and limes. If you live in a cool climate, bring it indoors before it gets cold in the fall. Citrus fruit ripens late in the season, usually during November through January.

You can have fresh fruit all winter.

Here is one of my wonderful homegrown LIMES!

Plant veggies, but don't be surprised when a single tomato plant produces abundant fruit. Beans, radishes, and lettuce can be replanted throughout the summer. Giving you the best salads you've ever tasted.

Purple Loose Strife grows wild; it can overtake lakes and rivers. It grows well in or around ponds. However, it does need a bit of management. You often see it in floral arrangements.

Geckos! Amazingly decorative these lizards have become a fascination of many. Recycled tin was turned into garden decoration and painted in lively colors.

Bird feeders bring added life to your garden. Birds eat bugs and other critters that can damage your garden plants. This feeder is both decorative and brings birds to your yard.