How To Choose Plants To Grow In A Garden

Plants are the jewels of a garden. Gardens filled with flowers are a major attraction and a well designed garden can be the envy of the neighbors. Growing plants in the garden is fun and also rewarding. No wonder, gardening is the preferred hobby of millions of people. There are flowers of all shapes, sizes and hues, and given the right conditions, they don’t require much maintenance and care. Flowers are the most beautiful and inexpensive (if it is from your own garden, that is) decorative items known to man. But to choose which flower to plant in your garden can be quite difficult. The only solution is research, and only research. Before spending on expensive saplings and bulbs, proper research on the type of plants and the garden must be done. Many a times due to wrong selection, the plants fail to grow or wither away. Read the article below to know more on how to choose plants to grow in a garden.  

 

The type of plants to choose depends on the type of gardens.

 

Gardens With Shade: For gardens with huge trees or with the house itself providing the shade, it is better to choose plants, which thrive in shade. However, there can be moist shade and dry shade. In moist shade, plants like ferns and hostas can be grown while in dry shade sword ferns and periwinkles can be grown. 

Sunny Gardens: These gardens require a constant supply of water. The choice of plants in sunny gardens is more. These types of plants are more colorful and require direct sunlight and plenty of water. While choosing plants for the sunny garden it must be considered that different plants require different degree of sunlight. Some need sun in the morning while some require sun most of the day and there are some plants, which require equal amount of sun and shade. 

Climate: Local plants are easy to grow. Select those plants, which grow in the climatic condition in which your garden is. For exotic plants, you need to construct a proper green house. Plants, which find the climate suitable, grow with little maintenance and remain healthy. Plants, especially flowering plants are very sensitive to climatic conditions and if the climate is not proper, then the flowers would wilt or never bloom. 

Soil: Test the type of soil you have in your garden. Certain plants thrive in certain soil conditions. Soil can be improved with composting so that a wide range of plants can be grown. Using soil testing kits find out the acidic and alkaline condition of the soil. Adding of lime decreases the acidity and adding of sulphur decreases the alkaline condition. You can also select plants, which thrive on acidic or alkaline soil.

Water:  The availability of water is of utmost importance and plants must be chosen according to the amount of water available. If there is a dearth of water then plants, which grow in dry conditions, must be planted and vice versa.