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from:If it’s your first time flower gardening, you should accept the fact that the process is going to be a learn-as-you-go kind of thing. Consider starting with an “experimental plot”, roughly about twenty to thirty square feet, which will accommodate about 20 to 30 gardening flowers/plants (choose mainly annuals and a few perennials). To start your first garden, you’re going to have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty, literally. Keep in mind that starting your garden will be a lot more work than maintaining it. Indeed, you’re going to have to spend lots of time tilling new ground and getting rid of long-established weeds to prepare your little bed of beauty.
Many experts agree that annuals (gardening flowers/plants that live for only one growing season) are good for the beginner gardener because they don’t require lots of work and they provide you with a virtually instantaneous burst of color. Indeed, they begin flowering soon after planting and will most likely keep their bloom until fall. Another benefit of annuals is that if you don’t like the color arrangement you’ve chosen, by next growing season, it’s gone and you can choose a whole new palette to work with.
You can either start your garden with seeds or gardening flowers/plants that have already begun to grow. There are a variety of suggestions among the gardening gurus as to the best way to start a garden and what the better option is for beginning gardeners.
Seeds are often a bit more difficult to deal with and require a lot more care and preparation to get growing. You must be careful with getting gardening flowers/plants that are already growing, though. For one thing, seeds are less expensive, so if something goes wrong, you lose less money. For another, if the growing plants were not given care, then they could be suffering from a wide variety of diseases, due to malnutrition or some kind of infection or infestation. If you are able to find a nursery where the gardening flowers/plants look healthy and you invest the time into looking carefully at each plant before you take it home, then you might be better off with a seedling. Don’t get plants that are too mature, as it will be hard to transplant them and get their roots to take in your garden.
Well, at least once you’ve done all that research to start your flower garden, you can finally sit back and relax, right? Wrong. Having a flower garden does not mean that the work stops once you’ve prepared your location and planted the flowers. You’ll need to maintain the garden and the flowers, by pruning, dividing cultivars, bringing plants indoors for protection, and setting them back outside. Like all hobbies, to do it right, it requires dedication.
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Chelsea Flower Show blooms defy drought and gloom - Reuters
 The Guardian | Chelsea Flower Show blooms defy drought and gloom Reuters The display gardens for the 99th Chelsea Flower show burst into full bloom in London on press viewing day, despite one of the driest winters and wettest springs in Britain for decades and a tough economic environment sweeping Europe. Chelsea Flower Show 2012: Sarah Price's garden Chelsea flower show: mud, B-list celebs and a rickety pyramid Chelsea Flower Show: It's the Monsters of Rock Garden |
Chelsea flower show chatter: get the gossip - The Guardian (blog)
 The Guardian (blog) | Chelsea flower show chatter: get the gossip The Guardian (blog) He's a fan of Lord Sugar-style marketing. One leading gardening pundit said: "Chelsea flower show is getting like football - all about money, ego and TV." Chelsea tickets were selling for £315 on eBay. But also for less than £100. Peat, maybe. Live: Chelsea Flower Show 2012 |
Garden fencing catches Queen's eye at Chelsea flower show - ITV News
 ITV News | Garden fencing catches Queen's eye at Chelsea flower show ITV News Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire It was fencing rather than plants that caught the Queen's eye at the Chelsea Flower Show today. Potential Olympic fencers James Honeybone, 21, and Alex O'Connell, 24, competed in full kit and Team GB masks in the middle ... Chelsea Flower Show: Queen wears a flowery hat as she is presented with ... Queen visits Chelsea Flower Show Chelsea Flower Show: Fencers Prove A Hit With Queen |
Chelsea Flower Show 2012: Gardeners asked to test own plants for Sudden Oak Death - Telegraph.co.uk
 Telegraph.co.uk | Chelsea Flower Show 2012: Gardeners asked to test own plants for Sudden Oak Death Telegraph.co.uk Gardeners at Chelsea Flower Show are being given test kits to identify Sudden Oak Death, a deadly plant disease that is sweeping the country. The foot and mouth of tree diseases arrived in Britain from America, where it decimated the oak population, ... |
Chelsea flower show 2012: five things to look out for - The Guardian (blog)
 The Guardian (blog) | Chelsea flower show 2012: five things to look out for The Guardian (blog) Anyone who finds this problematic can always sport a Steve Bell UnJubilee T-shirt and head along to one of the more subversive events at the Chelsea Fringe Festival. Native blooms are, again, everywhere at this year's show: see Sarah Price's garden for ... |