Four-Season Gardening Tips for Home Grown Food in any Season
In many parts of the country spring has sprung! Grass is green, trees are leafing out. Some spring flowers have already come and gone. These delightful bursts of color brighten up the entire landscape. Summer will provide more colors, textures and interest. But you don’t have to enjoy these beauties for only half the year. Here are some expert gardening tips for creating a garden landscape that offers color and interest all year long – even if you live in a northern state.
Mix it up With Containers
States with warmer year-round temperatures will have an easier time coming up with a four-season strategy, but even if you live where winter is cold and harsh there are ways to keep your outdoor areas alive with color and texture. Best of all, you don’t need a lot of space to create this kind of garden. Container gardens are perfect for this.
In fact, even if you plant an in-the-ground garden, you can add pizazz and seasonal interest by including occasional containers into the landscape. Put evergreens in containers and let them spice up your display of fall mums or winter grasses. One of the key gardening tips to developing year-round beauty is to always utilize a minimum of two plants that will bloom in the same season.
Suggested spring selections include the powerfully-hued tulip, bounteous blooming peonies or delicate snowdrops. Daffodils, crocus and iris also brighten your spring garden. If you need a larger in-the-ground statement it’s hard to beat the glorious yellow stems of the forsythia bush.
Summer offers a wide range of choices, of course: roses, hydrangea, daylilies and zinnias all serve up fabulous color and blossoms that are so gloriously unique that your garden can’t help but capture attention. Coneflowers and black-eyed Susans also add interest.
Come fall you’ll want to change out summer flowers for autumn lovelies like aster, mums or flowering cabbage. Pansies, too, come in vibrant colors and thrive in the cooler temperatures.
Winter gardens in northern climates can still enjoy color by introducing holly or firethorn bushes and other evergreen plants. Deep green leaves and bright red berries provide the same kind of visual impact as ruffly warm-weather blooms.
Keeping it Organized
Common among gardening tips is the use of a garden planner to keep things organized. You can track when you changed your plants and monitor how they do in various locations. Whether you are putting plants in the ground or in pots and regardless of whether they are annuals or perennials, using garden markers is an excellent idea. Garden planners and garden markers help you maintain an order to your carefully constructed year-round garden. And when you purchase garden markers, we invite you to use the best. Kincaid Plant Markers are the highest quality markers and come in a range of prices suitable to the needs of every gardener. Let us help you enjoy gardening every season of the year.
