If you have a green lawn but love color, consider installing a flower bed. This feature can enhance your landscaping and benefit the ecosystem by attracting birds, butterflies, and honeybees. Here is what you should know about undertaking this home beautification project.

3 Steps to Add a Flower Bed to Your Landscaping

1. Type of Flowers

Annuals are flowers that require replanting each year because they complete their life cycle in one season. Beautiful and practical, annuals include marigolds, impatiens, and tomato plants. Tropical hibiscus and pink mandevilla bloom in summer and love hot, humid weather. The best time to add these plants to your landscaping is after the last frost, and they will thrive during spring, summer, and fall.

Perennials are plants that live for more than a year. For example asparagus, daylilies, and hosta die when autumn frosts arrive but start growing again when spring returns. Peonies and ferns have long lives, and Lenten rose, lamb's ear, and rosemary stay green all year. 

2. Placement

Many annuals and perennials need full sun daily—at least six hours of direct sunlight. Establishing your flower bed in a sunny area provides the natural light needed. Selecting a partly sunny or shady area limits the types of flowers that will thrive there. Gaillardias love summer sun and produce waves of color. Hardy geraniums and heuchera, or coral bells, do well in shade. When planting perennials, allow enough room for them to grow, because they get larger as they come back each year. 

3. Maintenance

Placing flowers together that need similar amounts of sun, fertilizer, and water makes maintenance easier. Avoid landscaping with a flower bed full of annuals because you will need to replace them every year. To boost healthy growth, add compost to the bed when planting. Mulching around the plants regularly minimizes weed growth.

 

Enhance your yard with a flower bed and help from the professionals at Buzz Landscaping Inc. in Conway, AR. Their full-service landscaping company offers over 25 years of experience in focusing on sustainability, function, and beauty. This team combines practical and aesthetic features and delivers high-quality lawn and garden services to residential and commercial clients. Fully licensed, bonded, and insured, they provide exceptional customer care. For more on how they can help you, visit them online. Call (501) 730-4515 to schedule a free consultation.