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Caring For Your Garden

Gardening Advice and Tips to Help to Keep Your Garden Flowers, and Plants Looking their Best!

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How to Take Care of Fragrant Flowers in your Garden – One of the most common reasons why people love flowers so much is because of the beautiful fragrance they emit. A beautiful, natural garden overflowing with scented flowers can brighten up anyone’s day, even after a work week from hell.

The smell of flowers connotes happy occasions such as summer days, birthdays, weddings and celebrations. This is one of the reasons most gardeners will choose flowers that smell divine as their flowers du jour.

Some of the best fragrant flowers for your garden include Arabian jasmine, banana shrub, butterfly bush, confederate jasmine, garden phlox, gardenia, heliotrope, hyacinth, angels’ trumpet and roses.

All of these have a unique and delicious scent that will leave your outdoor area smelling beautiful. However, some of the most fragment and beautiful flowers also take more care than you would expect. To really get that beautiful, springtime freshness smell from your flowers, keep the following tips in mind:

• Bright, thick and colorful pedals on a flower can suggest a beautiful smell as well. Look for flowers that have thick colorful petals when choosing flowers. You can also ask the sales associate at your local garden center about the smell that will be emitted in full bloom.

• Fragrant flowers enjoy having company in their garden. One of the ways to increase the smell of your flowers is to plant trees, vines, perennials and shrubs along the garden bed with your fragrant flowers. Having neighbors will help your flowers show off their smell.

• To make the most of your garden care smell, think about choosing flowers that bloom at different times. That way the smells of each flower will not contradict one another, and you will have beautiful and varying smells all season long.

• Most flowers that are lacking in a sweet smell are so because they are thirsty. Make sure you give your flowers enough water to keep them healthy. In the hot season this may mean watering them every day or every other day.

• Finally, make sure your flowers have enough moisture and ventilation. Hot and dry gardens will not fare well for those fragrant flowers. Although they may grow, the smell will be lacking. Try to plant your flowers in an area where the air is gentle and the moisture content is high in the air. Humidity is not a fragrant flower’s friend.

Beginning Garden Care for the New Home Owner

A garden can make or break your outdoor living environment. In many instances, it is not until you own your first home that you truly begin to understand the importance of good garden care.

Perhaps you watched Mom and Dad slave away outside in the summers while you remained in the air conditioned house thinking about how crazy they were. After all, it’s just a garden!

But now that you have your own home, now that the rooms are decorated to perfection, now that the walls are painted and the carpets installed, now that the house looks like a home, you most likely want the same for your front and backyard garden.

But where do you begin?

• First of all, have a look at your garden situation. Is it an overgrown mess or is it as barren as the desert? In most instances, you are hoping for the latter. If not, then you will have to spend some time weeding, whacking and removing those overgrown weeds, roots and all.

• Next, you will need some gardening tools. Head to the local hardware shop and pick up the following: a gardening hose, pruning shears, a digging spade, a wheel barrow optional), a shovel (especially if you have a big mess ahead of you), a weeder and a garden knife. This will get you started.

• Take care of your soil. Before you can plant away, you need to make sure your soil is up to par. Good growing soil will retain moisture but does not stay too wet. You need to find that happy crumbly cake balance in your dirt. If your soil is too wet, too dry, too crumbly, too sticky or anything else, you can add composted manure or leaf mold which can bring the texture to a happy medium.

• Start with annuals. Annuals are easy to plant, easy to grow and easy to maintain with water two or three times a week. Many annuals can be grown from seed and will thrive in both the sun and the shade, according to the plant tag or the seed package.

• Finally, make sure you do the research and ask for assistance when it comes to choosing plants. Sure, roses are beautiful but did you know that they need at least six hours in the sun each day? Make sure you always read the labels to determine the best weather and climate conditions for your choice of plants.

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