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Proper plant selection

Much like making sure your clothes are the right size, it is just as important to choose the appropriate plants for your own personal garden. While many people will just choose by color or overall flower design, shape, smell, and coloration. That isn’t always the best method of making the proper plant selection for your yard. Unfortunately, this is a fact that has frustrated many new gardeners and even landscape designers. They don’t seem to stop and think about the growth habits and overall characteristics of the plant that they have chosen. However, it is just as important as the health of your soil.

While you shouldn’t plan your garden from the garden center itself, you may find that it is important to become knowledgeable about your climate’s effect on plant life. These expert people can help you to make the right decision, and give you ideas on what you should plant in either the shade or heavily sun battered areas of your yard. Thus ensuring that your plants, garden, and landscape can and will survive throughout the year.

But how do you make the proper plant selection for your garden? Simple! First and foremost you should get to know your property a little bit better. Where does the sun shine for the longest period of the day? Where does it stay shady? What kind of soil do you have? After you have answered these questions, you will then begin to consider the height and width of plants, the overall form, texture, and then the coloration of these plants. However some other key points are to know the resistance to insects, as well as the moisture tolerance, or even drought resistance of plants. All of this information will help you to make educated and wise choices when it comes to choosing the right plants for your yard.

Lastly you should remember to not purchase plants that are all in the same height range. Layering sizes and colors of your plants will help to create interest and depth. Thus allowing one’s eyes to travel over your overall landscape, without having to strain in choosing each individual flower, bush, or tree.