How to Estimate How Many Flowers to Plant in Your Garden?

Many people love designing and planting their own flower gardens. When you use annual flowers this can be especially enjoyable since you can change your garden three times every year. That way if it turns out that you don’t like the mix of flowers you planted one season, you are not stuck with them. Each season you can try out new flowers in your garden. Lawn Jockey of Lewisville, Texas has a Full Bloom Program where we install new color three times per year including Organic Fertilizer.
Different flowers require different amounts of space in order to grow properly. When you decide which flowers you might like to include in your garden, it is a good idea to look into the requirements of each type you are going to use in order to find out how much space it needs. Then you can use that to determine how many of each flower will fit into the space that you are allocating for them in your garden. It might take a little work to do this, but it isn’t really all that hard. Most commonly planted sizes are 4 inch flats of annuals. These flats hold 18 individual plants and should be planted on average 8 inches apart. Expect to use one flat of annual color for every 12 square feet of the desired landscape bed. Planting the right number of annual flowers for the space you have available will ensure that the plants are more likely to grow well and bloom so that you will have the beautiful garden that you desire. It can be tempting to just put the plants in and cram them together to get more of them into the space, and thus have more flowers, but the plants are less likely to flourish if you do this. This is the reason why sometimes when you have a garden and grow plants from seeds you are told to thin it out after the plants come in and you see which seeds were successful in growing into plants.

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There are all types of software that you can use, many of them inexpensive, in order to plan gardens and other landscaping projects that you might be interested in. Most of these have all the specifications for the different plants, including both annual flowers and perennials, included in the software program so you won’t have to look any further. Some of them will even show you how the garden will look throughout the year given the plants that you have chosen to include. This is helpful if you want to spread the blooming times of the flowers out so that the garden looks nice during the majority of the year. Or you can leave all the guess work up to Lawn Jockey and rest assured you will never be out of bloom again.