To ensure that you are able to conjure up with the right flower garden design you need to start off by planning everything right which in turn means that you need to avoid placing extra emphasis on adding too much color and to also try and choose your flowers with great care. You need to be careful that you plan for spring and summer and also for autumn as this will help you create more explosive colors and will ensure succession of blossoming flowers throughout the entire gardening season.

Annuals That Bloom Through Various Seasons

The best way to ensure that your flower garden design works right in all seasons is by planning which can be simple such as including annuals that will bloom all through various seasons or more complicated such as planting certain flowers that will only bloom in certain seasons.

The long bloomer is chosen for its ability to bloom for just one or at most two weeks. Such flowers might not prove to be the best option in your flower garden design as it will take too much effort in planting and taking care of these plants while you will only get the pleasure of seeing them bloom for a week or two which seems to be a waste of effort; however, they should be mixed with other flowers.

Proper flower garden design also requires that you mix perennials with annuals with the former being placed in the center while the latter can be placed near the edges of your flower garden. To enliven things up a bit you can alternate mondo grass with pansies which will create better edging.

Bulb flowers, when they bloom, let everyone know that spring has arrived and even though these flowers, when included in your flower garden design, will not last for too long they can, when planted one on top of the other (in layers) they will nevertheless provide a good look and feel to your flower garden.

Another way of improving your flower garden design is to ensure that flowers for different seasons such as spring and summer and autumn are interspersed with one another which will give your flower garden a more interesting look.

Fortunately, with a little bit of imagination it is easy to think up some interesting flower garden ideas. In the case of planting perennials several interesting ideas can come to mind that will when incorporated in your flower garden, help in avoiding the necessity of having to redo your garden year after year which means less labor and with the proper amount of care, ensures a more pleasing flower garden.