How to Make a Beautiful Spring Garden?
Spring is a glorious season because you will see beautiful healthy plants in you garden swaying in the breeze of the wind and smelling the sweet fragrance of the your enchanting flowers and bouquets. You will love to see your garden with colorful flowers that are gracefully intermingling. This is the best time for gardeners that they sit and relax and enjoy their beautiful Spring garden.
So for those who want to have a beautiful spring garden then you must act now. The best time to make a spring garden is January or February. Of course if you start your Spring garden in Spring (April-May) then you cannot have a beautiful spring garden. Fall and Winter is the best time to start your Spring garden. To make a Spring Garden is a lot of hard work. You must plan ahead.
Here are some tips to make your spring garden:
1. If you really want to have a beautiful spring then start pulling your weeds now so that you will not spend more time weeding later. You know that weeds are smaller and easier to pull during rainy season. One weed that you pulled out now can prevent 100 weeds later.
What if the soil is pure clay? Well you have to dig the compost down to level of 1-1/2 feet. Plants don’t like to grow in clay because the roots of the plant needs air pockets and space to grow and clay doesn’t have air in it. Your soil must end up soft and loose.
2. The most important factor to have a successful garden is a very good soil. You must get your soil ready and topdress it with a good quality compost. In this, the soil will be enriched with nutrients and makes it better for the roots of the plant to grow. The worms will rise to the surface to enjoy its goodness, further aerating your soil further down.
What if I will buy a pre-bagged composed? Then don’t buy a cheap one from the box stores. Look for a compost that have chicken ro steer manure in it as weel as mushroom compost. Cheap compost have little nutrients in it. Cheap compost are mostly wood and sand. So if you are wondering that your plants don’t grow well then your compost is not good.
3. You must see to it which part of your garden gets the shady part and which part of gets more hours of the sun. So must learn about the light in your garden. This could help you when you are ready to plant.
4. Maybe some of you want to grow your plants from seed. If that so, then sow you seeds now. Most spring blooming annuals like to germinate during the cool weather. These are the hardy annuals and love to grow when its cool and bloom before the temperatures reach the high 70’s. You must sow your seeds not later than February so tht they will bloom in April to early May. And also sow your perennials now too.
5. You must think about what plants are you going to plant to make such a beautiful Spring garden. Plan it out. Look for wonderful and charming California wildflowers — Annual, Native Perennials, Mediterranean Climate Annuals and Non Native Spring Blooming Perennials that are easy to grow spring bloomers in your Spring garden.
6. So some of you want to buy plants now for your beautiful Spring garden. But remember to buy your plants small and don’t buy plants that are already in bloom. So why you will not buy plants that are already blooming? Because blooming plants already used up their bloom timeand will never put up a show. The smaller the plant that you will buy the better. The smaller plant will grow nice, fat and healthy and will bloom much longer.
7. Flowering annual and perennials look at their best when there’s some chunky and solid grass around. These make bloomers more beautiful and stand out more. So here are some of the recommended grasses that don”t get too gigantic and works well in the garden such as Deschampsia flexuosa, Carex dipsacea, Stipa arundinacea AKA Anomethele lessoniana “New Zealand Wind Grass”, Carex testacea and Carex tumicola “Berkeley Sedge” (native).
8. Plants needs to be watered. Watering the plant is hard work. But during cool wet seasons, you don’t need to water your plant. That is the joy of the gardeners when planting in this season. But sometimes dry spell hits Spring so in this situation, you must water your plants so that it will not dry out.
9. You can greatly extend the blooming time of all your Spring blooming annuals by removing the faded blooms. Using clippers or little scissors to cut long-stemmed flowers back to the main stem or base looks best. If you want your plants to self-sow, let the last of the flowers go to seed and drop where they may.
10. So now you will enjoy seeing your beautiful Spring garden swaying in the breeze of the wind and smell the sweet fragrance of the flowers. Sit back, relax and enjoy. Your will be rejuvenated seeing your beautiful Spring garden that will satisfy your sight.
