Planning Your Garden

Flowers bloom in many different colors and at different times of the season. Because of this, it is always a good idea to plan your garden before you put a shovel to the ground. This allows you to design your garden to achieve excellent color balance and appearance throughout the temperate season.

How to Make the Plan

There are many ways you can plan your garden. Here are some ideas:

• Draw your plan on grid paper.
• Use gardening books to determine colors, heights, and blooming periods of the plants you want to place in your garden.
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• Disadvantage: You can't visulaize your garden in color.
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• Make a garden collage.
• Collect different color pictures of plants that you would like from gardening magazines. Make cutouts of the plants and position them on a piece of paper, creating a gardening magazines.
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• Disadvantage: You destroy your gardening magazines.
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• If you have a computer, use landscaping software.
• Many landscaping programs allows you to plan your garden in three dimensions.
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• Some of these programs create animations to show you how your plant choices will bloom over time.
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• Disadvantage: The initial cost of the program.
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