Category: Flowers

Lots of different types if Flower Pictures

Pumpkin Design Ideas

2023 Autumn &Thanksgiving Ideas to decorate your entrance and help your family celebrate the holidays! Pumpkins placed on a straw bale welcomes visitors thru the wood double doors! Straw bales are a harvest décor that helps keep the pumpkins off the ground
Variety of Autumn decorations using orange Pumpkins, different colored mums and straw bales adds a Thanksgiving harvest theme.

Crocus Flower a Sign of Spring!

Which is your Favorite Crocus Flower Color?

Crocus is one of several of the first flowers to come out of the ground in spring. Some people refer to the Crosuses as the light bulb flower, bright like a light bulb.

Crosuses are a perennial flowering bulb flowering in the earliest part of Spring of each year.

Purple is a Popular Favorite!


Purple Crocus is a popular choice, planted closely in lots of 6-12 produces nice grouping of garden Color!

Crocus Flowers are a sign of hope & warm sunny days to come, that Spring has arrived!


There is an Autumn Crocus, known as Meadow Saffron or Naked Lady and is a nice sight in the Autumn Season when there is little color or flowers in one’s garden.Ifyou Did not plant Cocuses in the Fall?

Crocus Tip – Well go to the store and buy some ready to flower Crocus … after they are done flowering plant them in you garden to enjoy them next Spring!

Flowers for Fall

Spring is far enough away that one needs garden flowers that do well into the late Fall SeasonBright Red geraniums flower well into Fall specially planted in some sun.

Large group of marigolds in a sunny patch will flower well in the Autumn

PS Sunny spot in your garden will produce the best late blooming floors … when out on a walk spot check what is flowering in other people gardens  .. a good way to find new Fall flowering garden ideas.

Begonias

Begonias are a popular annual plant that continuously flower all Summer.

Begonias are great in flower beds, flower pots, window boxes and are usually red, white, or pink in color.

PS 1. Two types of Begonias: Wax Begonias are more sun and heat tolerant and the Tuberous begonias need more shade with less heat.
2. A Family of Begoniaceae are best in the front row of your garden as they only grows 6-15 inches or 15-36cm high.

Poppy Favorite?

Poppys are prized for their large size and colorfulness!

Get a Wow out of most people…  lovely in large groupings  …  many unique exciting poppy colors like this pink poppy!

Planting your poppies in the fall will reward you lovely poppy flowers in early summer!

Orange Poppy flower is a traditional color & very eye catching in Spring

Rid of Weeds?

The dandelion weed is a persistent perennial weed.  If permitted, it will take over your lawn with it’s large light blocking leafs, reducing the effectiveness of grass to grow. Returning every year, usually blooming twice per season, as this owner knows well.

Weed Problem left too long? Hard to win against the dandelion .. best just call the weed specialists!

Dandelions: Why your Can’t Win!

If you not interested in using it’s dandelion’s leaves, stem, flowers or root parts for medicinal purposes then you know getting rid of them is almost impossible!!!

Dandelion hard to Remove!  The difficulty is the dandelion’s long fleshy tap root. When pulled it rarely comes out in one piece leaving a root for a new dandelion to grow.

Many hours invested?  No win situation.

Self Seeding Garden Plants?

List of Different Types of Self Seeding Plants

Featured is a Self Seeding Fox Glove,  which offers a great variety of different colored flowering plants.

Excellent place to start gardening with self seeding plants!

Photographed in early summer.Shown is a purchased “garden center Fox Glove” plant which produces lots of flowers over several weeks with the assistance of multiple flowering stems.

In the fall, it will self seed, let your garden do the some of the natural rebirth work!  You can harvest the seed pods over the summer. Replant Fox Gloves else where or give extra seeds to family, neighbors and friends.

Below the photos is handy a list of self seeding flowering plants that can save you some money when at the garden center.Got to plant them before summer comes! 

Here is a list of different self seeding plants, the pictures above are an example of foxglove flower, scientific name is (Digitalis purpurea)

Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)

Borage (Borago officinalis)

Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)

California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

Honesty (Lunaria annua)

Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)

Phacelia tanacetifolia

Pot marigold (Calendula officinalis)

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)

Verbena bonariensis

Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica)

 

Rock Garden Planning

Colorful Example of a Rock Garden in mid Spring showing a variety of Flower arrangement ideas.

Landscape ideas can be the key to winning design! Scan Google’s internet images, some garden centers offer free design ideas and gardening services, also landscape garden related service companies can help you with idea layouts, pricing and selection costs.

P.S. Year of the Garden? Jack Up your garden Design with some use of different types & shapes of rocks, along with dash different varieties of eye catching flowers and small shrubs.

Ice Pansy Flower, Is Bigger Better?

The Ice Pansy in Spring is frost hardy flowering plant coming in a multitude of bright solid and mixed assortment of colors.

Yes, for color impact & splash the bigger pansies make noticeable difference, see area calculations at the bottom to understand why!

Spring Flowers: Local garden centers, building stores, Costco display and big box grocery stores offer for sale Ice Pansies because they are frost hardy. Jump start your Spring with color!!!

Fall Flowers: Late Fall Tip: Frost is a killer of most Fall plants and their flowers, so planting greenhouse grown Ice Pansies in the off season, ie found at Lowes, Home Depot and Better Garden Centers, … a a fast way to return color in your prime garden areas.

PS Personally prefer the bigger 2″ plus diameter pansies for BIG color garden impact – takes some searching, not every store has the monster flowers!!!

Question: How much bigger is a 1″ pansy versus a 2″ pansy? Much larger, actually four times larger – see calculation below!

Well a 1″ (2.54 cm) )diameter pansy measures approx. 3/4 (5.06 square cm) of a square inch
A 2″ (5.08cm) )diameter pansy measures approx. 3.14 (20.2 square cm) of a square inch

Mum Flower Garden Display

Fall mums are a great choice! It makes one’s garden color come back when other trees, shrubs and plants are shutting down for the coming of winter months.

Some prefer the yellow mums in gardens as they seem to hold their flowers longer but mixing in another color adds a needed variety and contrast as seen below.

What Type of Flowering Bulb?

Hyacinths can grow in just water because the nutrients are in the bulb!

Hyacinthus is an early bloomer in Spring coming in range of pinks, blues in single or double petal flowers. Hyacinths blooms only once per year and bloom each year as are a perennial plant.A favorite potted plant in the house with of it’s strong fragrant flowers.

A Mother’s Day gift winner!

Purple Lilac Flowers

These pretty purple with white border lilac tree flowers are truly unique .. rewarding it’s proud owners every spring.


This unique Lilac type will only be sold in upscale Garden Centers! 
Go for it! “Botanic your Garden!”

More Lilac Flowers to  …. Lilac Tree Pictures