Explore 27beautiful flowergardens that will beckon you with blooms.
Use healthy trees and shrubs as the backbone of the garden.
Choose two contrasting colors, or one color family (like purple and pink).
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Finally, focus onregular weeding, because today’s weed is tomorrow’s weed patch.
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Potager gardens play up the symbiotic relationship between vegetables and flowers.
A few sprigs of pink delphinium add height to the orange and pink ruffled blooms in the garden.
The Spruce / Evgeniya Vlasova
Flowering plants that thrive in bog gardens also include cardinal flower,yellow iris, and leopard plants.
A fun and funky addition to the wet garden is thecarnivorous pitcher plant.
These look like something out of a jungle, but are hardy down to zone 5.
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Some standing water indicates a healthy bog garden.
The presence of frogs, salamanders, or even turtles also tells you a bog environment is present.
A pond liner can also serve as a bog garden beginning.
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Disguise the edges with rocks, and fill the bottom with peat moss and sand.
How wide should you make your path?
A comfortable path can accommodate a wheelbarrow or garden cart with room to turn around.
My 100 Year Old Home
This garden full ofbee balmandverbena bonariensisis busy with butterflies and other pollinators throughout summer.
These orange and purple mums suit the autumn perfectly.
And with no grass, there’s no need to mow.
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