Beautiful Flowers By Proper Maintaince and Care

After a long winter there is nothing more lovely than a spring garden with decorative garden decor (glass gazing balls are a great addition). That spring bloom can be much more beautiful by following this easy tip.

I’m going to recommend that you go ahead and plant your bulbs and ground phlox first thing in the fall. You
should also put some bulb fertilizer in each hole as you plant the bulbs-and pay attention to
how far down the store explained to plant. It is also a good idea to plant the bulbs in groups of 5 or 10
interspersed in such a way that other plants will hide their foliage as the bulbs start to
wither. When they are just planted willy nilly here and there they tend to make a nice
home seem cheap.

In the spring after your daffodils and tulips have all bloomed it is important to not cut
down the greens. Considered unattractive by lots of people this cutting away will only hinder your flower bulbs from
properly blooming in the years to come. If you will have the patience to let it yellow, it should pull out or cut off more easily
enough. In fact if it does not pull out of the ground easily then it is not ready to be cut
out or cut away. All of the remaining greenery are generating food for the following year’s blooms. Try to just
disregard them until they have wholely wilted.

It is also a good idea to put down some bulb fertilizer in the fall and spring over the areas where you have them planted. This will help keep your bulbs happy from year to year. Daffodils are a good bulb choice as deer and squirrels seem fairly uninterested in them and
they slowly multiply year after year.

If you haven’t already noticed also, tulips can be a hear-breaker!

After a few years they tend to stop blooming or the squirrels have stolen them or the deer have eaten them-they just kind of disappear.

Words of Caution: Grape Hyacinth and also Scilla are both beautiful BUT they could grow to a
point of becoming a nuisance in your landscape…and, as you can probably guess, you will want to keep this in mind if introducing them. Be sure to have some recycled glass gazing balls and other decorative garden decor too!

This is crucial: Spring gardens started in the FALL give the best blooms…just another reason why planning ahead is a big part of gardening.