Landworks Lawn Care Company Flower Guidance

By Landworks | April 19, 2022 |

Landworks lawn care company is your expert for spring flowers, from planning to planting and maintenance. We can guide and assist you in creating gorgeous displays that beautify your landscape and celebrate spring.

Flower Garden Planning

There are several factors a lawn care company must consider when designing flower beds:

Color: Choose flowers that color coordinate with each other as well as buildings and other landscaping. Using both pale and vibrant colors creates interest and movement. Using several plants that all flower at different times ensures color throughout the season.
Size and Texture: Add dimension by contrasting heights and plant shapes. Plant the smallest flowers in the front and the tallest in the back.
Sun or Shade: Determine where on the spectrum of full sun (six to eight hours a day) to dense shade (practically no sun) each area of your garden is, and plant accordingly.

Annuals, Perennials, and Biennials

Whether an annual is planted from seed or purchased as a transplant, it will sprout, flower, seed, and then die, all in the same year. Biennials have a life cycle spanning two years. During year one, the plant germinates and grows. The second year it flowers, it produces seeds and dies.

Flowers that live for three or more growing seasons are called perennials. Perennials can be planted from bulbs or seeds. Bulbs often need to be planted in the fall to produce spring-blooming plants. Perennials are more low maintenance flowers and will save money on watering because most are drought resistant.

Planting Tips

Whether planting from seed or transplants, proper planting is critical. Prepare flower beds by digging at least 6 inches into the soil. Ensure good drainage by working in plenty of peat moss or compost. If you are planting from seed, you must thin the seedlings to give them room to grow. Determine which areas of your garden may receive more or less water or light and plant accordingly.

Maintaining Your Flowers

Flowers should be fertilized regularly during the season for the best blooms. A fertilizer suitable for flowering plants should be applied every 3-6 weeks.

If rainfall is insufficient, provide 1/2 inch to 1 inch of water per week. New flowers don’t need long periods of watering because the roots are only on the surface.

To keep flowers blooming, remove spent blooms. This is called deadheading. Or you can leave the withered blooms on the plant to harvest seeds for replanting next year.