Designing a flower garden is quite an art. For that matter designing anything requires a lot of creativity and imagination. You also need to give in a lot of time and commit yourself to the designing of your garden. There are many themes you can select for your garden design. For instance, you can have a rock garden, a water garden with a variety of water features, a flower garden, exotic wild flowers garden just to name a few. If space is not a problem for you, then you can even have a combination of the various themes.
Before you start designing, you will need to keep in mind how much space you can dedicate to your flower garden and also choose the flowers that you would like to care for. Now days the trend of planting perennials, annuals, roses, daisies all together in a 'mixed border' is picking up, rather than just one kind of flowers.
- Your flower beds should be at least five to six feet wide, reason being, it will give you more options of experimenting in your flower garden and also make it look very lush and attractive.
- Every flower bed needs sense of definition; a line that sets it apart from the rest of the garden. Lately, straight lines are 'out' and smooth curved lines are 'in' for the flower garden. But it also depends on how much of a flower garden you can accommodate. Straight lines also look very chic and neat.
- In flower gardening, planting in clumps is definitely better. The mass of blooms that you will see in a well-planned garden is a result of planting drifts of three, five, seven or more of the same plant.
- Try and plant taller perennials and annuals at the back of your garden. However, do not place all your tall plants at the back. Plants that are airy and see-through can be placed in the front.
- Plant the flowers in such a way and at such a distance that they can grow and survive comfortably. Even plants need some space to live.
- Try creating unity in your flower garden design by limiting the colours that complement well with each other or you can even group some of the flowers and repeat them at regular intervals.
- Symmetry is a formal approach to a flower garden layout. For instance, planting the same upright shrub or flowers on both sides of a gate.
- The flower garden that will catch anyone's attention is the garden with a central point. You can either place a bench, a gate, statuary, an arbour, or art. If you have a big garden, then you can more of these decorative objects.