Ultimate Gardening Guide: What to Plant in your Garden
By Catalogs Editorial Staff
What to plant in your garden is up to your discretion, but consider these tips
What you plant in your garden is solely up to your preference; however, if you are a novice you might not yet know what you prefer. Furthermore, you may want to put some thought and planning into your flower garden before you forge ahead because this saves you from making some mistakes.
Start Planning

In order to achieve these goals, you must know something about flowers, such as when they bloom; what their sun and water requirements are; what height they will ultimately be; what color they are, and what type of soil is required. It might also behoove you to know in advance what flowers are or aren?t fragrant; which attract butterflies or birds and if they can survive intense heat or deep shade. The more you know, the greater success you are going to have.
Some gardening businesses offer preplanned gardens which takes the guesswork out of it for you. For example, if you want a shade garden the garden will include various hostas and phlox and other shade-loving plants as well as a layout guide, so you know which plants are tall and which are short and when the flowers bloom so you can plan accordingly. Preplanned gardens bloom throughout the season featuring complementary colors.
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Perennials

During the first year, the plant grows stems, roots, and leaves, and then it goes into dormancy during the winter months. The next spring or summer the plant gets longer and produces flowers or seeds or fruit before it dies. Biennials aren’t as common as perennial and annual plants.
Even if you don’t have 100 percent success with your perennials — some may die — you will still have a jump start on your garden the following. It will already have some plants (perennials) in it when the growing season begins and you can work around them, adding more perennials and/or annuals. In other words, you aren’t starting from scratch each year.
Perennials generally live for about five years after they are first planted and most are hardy and resistant to insects and disease. An easy-to-care-for perennial, such as phlox, is tolerant of growing conditions as well as of the heat of summer and the cold of winter. It doesn?t need to be staked and it’s not going to overrun your entire garden. Some easy-to-care-for perennial flowers include daylilies, astilbe, bleeding heart, lady’s mantle, hosta, ornamental grasses, and coral bells.
Annuals

Annuals include geraniums, petunias, impatiens, marigolds, begonias, bachelor button, black-eyed Susan, snapdragon, salvia, and zinnias, just to name a few.
Seasonal Flowers

Mums, which are perennials, boast wonderfully crisp colors, blooming in the autumn. They come in rich red, gold, white, and purples and designate that the good weather isn’t going to last much longer. Winter is on its way.
Where to find inspiration

And, remember, there is some trial and error involved. In fact, there will be a lot of errors until you learn the gardening ropes — but don’t despair. You probably aren’t going to have a 100 percent success rate the first year out but you might.
Do some research or talk to a flower expert and think about how you want your garden to look. Formal? Informal? Symmetrical? Random? Do you like vines? Roses? Shrubs? What about planting some trees? Will there be a walkway? A water feature?
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Gardening is hard work but it’s also great fun you are going to love experimenting with different kinds of flowers and what to plant in your garden . You will certainly enjoy the fruits of your labor.