Improve Your Flower Garden

Your flower garden must have a decent supply of water, sunlight, and fertile soil. Any miss of these basic requirements will greatly affect the health of plants. Water the flower garden more often during dry spells.

When planting bulbs, make certain they go at the correct depth. When planting out shrubs and perennials, make certain that you don't heap soil or mulch up around the stem. If you do, water will drain off rather than penetrating, and the stem could develop rot by overheating.

Perennial flower bulbs don't need to be replanted as they grow and bloom for many years whilst annuals grow and bloom for just one season. Mixing a couple of perennials with annuals guarantees that you will always have blooms coming on.

Deadheading is just snipping off the flower head after it wilts. This will make the plant produce more flowers. Only be sure that you do not discard the deadhead on the garden or mold and other plant disease will attack your plants.

Most garden insects do more good than harm. Butterflies, beetles and bees are known pollinators. They fertilize plants by unplanned transfer of pollen from one plant to another. 80% of flowering plants rely on insects for survival.

Sowbugs and dung beetles together with fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms are essential to help in the decomposition of dead plant material, thus enriching the soil and making more nutrients available to growing plants.

Other insects like lacewings and dragonflies are natural predators of those insects that do the real harm, like aphis.