Keeping Your Garden Healthy And Attractive By Planting Flowers

October 17, 2010 by: Whitney Cobaine

That piece of lot that is lying idle on your backyard can be used in a very creative manner to make a very beautiful and resourceful veggie garden or even a flower bed; if you don’t know anything about planting vegetables.

You will be glad when you start seeing the fruit of your labor in vibrant colors and relaxing aura that is coming from your backyard. It is easy to get flowers that will grow well in your garden; in fact you are spoilt for choice when you start to check which ones to pick. Here are some good ideas on how to grow the top five flowers for your garden.

The one called cosmos grows between 12 inches to 4 feet tall and is ideal for flower arrangements. They will make your garden a picturesque beauty that is lovely to look at. Pick it from your garden and add it to your arrangements.

If you are too busy to give enough time to your gardening, the ideal flowers to plant are the marigolds since they do not require very keen tending and much watering. The bloom is yellow and golden, takes between one and a half to two months for it to be in full bloom.

Those who wish to plant something to beautify the walls should be comfortable with morning glory which is perfect as wall decoration and can grow up to ten feet high. Their beauty is in the white, blue, violet, purple and pink flowers.

Sunflowers give you the orange and yellow flowers that are very spectacular so it is found in most gardens. It can be 6 feet tall and when it grows in a cluster it is a magnificent sight.

Zinnias has long been dismissed by many as traditional and old fashioned but the truth is that it is delightful and gives a vintage look to any garden; plus it takes very little watering even in dry periods.

Now that you know which flowers are ideal to start with; you could just pick a few of them and keep your garden healthy and beautiful.

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