Urban Flower Garden

When you are living in the metropolitan cities, you don’t have to give excuses of metropolitan lifestyle to enjoy the pleasure of flower gardening. You can plant the flower gardens in the smallest available space and with the proper gardening methods; you can perfectly maintain this urban flower garden.
Urban flower gardens mean anything from pot gardening to community gardens or home gardening to indoor gardening. The urban gardens can follow the small garden designing tips. You can have the flower garden in the tiniest apartment that will reconnect you with the natural world through gardening. Here are some important tips to help you when you are planting the urban flower gardens.

Urban Flower Gardens:
Urban flower gardens can be planted in the space available around the apartment or these gardens can be planted on the terrace of the apartments in pots and containers. When you decide to plant the flower garden, create the garden design keeping in mind the space available around your apartment. Sometimes there is very little area available around your building and if you select the garden design that requires large area, you can face difficulty in planting the flower plants.
All people in the apartment can enjoy the pleasure of such flower gardens. With the multiple efforts of all people, you can make these urban flower gardens more beautiful and attractive.
After selecting the appropriate garden design, it is important to select the proper sized containers for your garden. Make sure that the containers you select have the drainage holes to drain out the excess of water. If it doesn’t, fill the containers with the river stones or sand to half of the container and then add the soil for basing the plants. This will help to drain the excess of water without affecting the roots of the plant.
If you are planting the garden on your terrace, select the plants that grow shorter. Herbs and shrubs are the best choices for such gardens. You can also grow vegetables in the community gardens. Planting the flower garden or the vegetable garden will benefit the surrounding.
Urban gardening is becoming increasingly popular. Urban gardens are much important as the developers are transforming the fertile land into the sprawling suburbs. Urban gardens can also help to maintain the ecological balance. It is important to take initiative and plant more and more urban flower gardens in the neighborhood.

Gardening Gone Wild

Wild plants are plants that are not planted by someone for any specific purpose and taken care of. There are many wild plants blooming beautiful flowers. People are now planting such wildflower plants in their gardens to enhance the beauty of their garden. It is essential to follow the basic flower gardening tips to make your garden attractive and stunning. You can plant the colorful and interesting flower plants in your garden to make it look more eye-catching.
Wild Flower Gardening:
Wild flowers can be grown in your flower garden along with your other garden plants. The maintenance required for these wild flower plants is too less. They also have less water requirement.
For giving your garden a wild look, you can include different grasses in your garden. Select the wild plants with attractive appearance for planting in your garden. Black eyed Susan, zinnia, yarrow, cleome, cosmos, etc. are good choices for your garden. Following are some basic tips to take care of your garden wild plants.
• Plants do not require frequent watering. Water the plants during dry spell. This will help to keep the plant look at its best.
• Wild flowers grow very quickly and densely. Weeds will generally grow during initial days but will be automatically reduced after the wild plants cover the entire garden area.
• Trimming the garden plants is the major maintenance tools. During the late fall when the perennials become dormant, all the plants should be trimmed down to 4-6 inches. You can use the lawn mower for this purpose. Cutting the plants will save their energy that can be utilized for dense growth.
• Plan your garden bed before you plant the wild flower plants.
• The finest time to plant the wild flowers is in spring. This will give them enough time to get adjusted to the climate. If you wish to start wild flower gardening in summer, make sure to start it before frost.
• Before planting the garden, design your garden accurately and keep the pathway in-between the garden to walk.
Wild flowers in your garden will attract the useful insects like butterflies, humming birds and other beneficial insects. These insects can help in the pollination of your flowers plants. This will be bonus of planting the wild flowers in your flower gardens.

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