Favorite Garden Flowers

If you want to exercise your green thumb or are looking for fresh landscaping ideas you ve come to the right place.

Favorite garden flowers.

Well monarch airlines have asked the nation to do just that vote for their favourite flower. Astilbe are shade loving florals that feature feathery plume like flowers in a handful of colors including pink red and white. They can soar to 5 feet depending on the species and are excellent for beds and borders as well as for cutting to bring indoors. Black eyed susan is a tried and true favorite of the perennial garden well loved for its deep butterscotch yellow ray flowers radiating from dark chocolate centers.

Phlox is a low growing spreading plant that forms a blanket of blooms all summer. A gardener s favorite these flowers are known as a backyard staple. Looking for a flower that will thrive in the shady areas of your garden. Grown in full sun plants reach 3 to 4 feet tall and 1 feet wide.

It s no wonder that for generations perennial flowers have graced gardens around the world â there is a certain pleasure in seeing the arrival each year of favorites like wildflowers just seem to happen on their own. Perennial varieties are great for a year round groundcover. These are the best types of flowers including annuals and perennials to plant in your backyard garden. Once established in their designated areas they will delight by naturalizing and spreading the beauty of these favorites year after year with minimal efforts.

Unsurprisingly the winner was the rose. Plant in consistently moist well drained soils. Full sun or part sun water. A staple of the fall garden asters burst forth with their starlike perennial flowers in late summer and autumn.

Garden flowers come in all colors shapes and sizes. For best results do a soil test before planting to see what amendments if any you may need soil test kits are available from garden centers or your local county extension service may be. Every gardener can benefit from our tips to grow picture perfect flowers. Bloom colors include rich pinks blues purples and ruby reds.

Browse our list of shade loving plants to find the best solution for you. Most garden phlox will grow in usda hardiness zones 4 to 8.