Wild-Flower Garden

A wild flower garden has a most attractive sound. One thinks of long tramps in the woods, collecting material, and then the fun in fixing a real sure wild garden. Many people say they have no luck at all with such a garden. It's not a question of luck, but a question of understanding, for wild flowers are like people and each has its personality. What kind of plant is used in nature they will always have been. In fact, when he removed his own kind of living conditions, ill and died there. That is enough to tell us that we are copying nature. Suppose you are hunting wild flowers. How to make sure flowers from the forest, select the floor they are noted in the location and conditions, the environment, and the neighbors. Suppose you find dog-tooth violets and wind-flowers growing near together. Then put them into their own new garden. Suppose you find a certain violet enjoying an open situation, then it should always be the same. You see the point, right? If you want wild flowers in a garden grow tame feel at home. Cheat them into almost believing that they are still persecuted in their native language. Wild flowers should be passed is transplanted after flowering. Take a trowel and a basket into the woods with you. How do you take a few, a columbine, or a hepatica, you should know the roots of some of the plant's own soil, which are packed on them must take if replanted. should go to the bed in which these plants carefully before this trip will be prepared by you. Surely you will not want to bring the plant back to service during the day or night before planting. You should go to new quarters at once. The bed needs soil from the forest, deep and rich and full of leaf mold. Which was awarded under drainage system. Then plants are not logged in ground water to go. Some people think that all wood plants should have a soil saturated with water. But the forest itself are not logged waterproof. It may be that you have to dig your garden up very deeply and put some stones into the ground. should go in this upper floor. And above, where the top soil once was, put a new layer of rich soil you brought from the forest. Before planting water the soil well. Then, as you make room for the plants in each hole put some of the earth, the plant, which will be placed there too. I think it would be a pretty nice plan, a wild-flower garden giving a series of flower from spring to late autumn, so let's start with March, hepatica, spring beauty and saxifrage. Then comes April bearing in his arms the beautiful columbine, the tiny flowers and wild geraniums. For May, the dog-tooth violet and the wood anemone, false Solomon's seal, Jack-in-the-pulpit, wake robin, bloodroot and violets. June will give the bellflower, mullein, bee balm and foxglove. I would choose the gay butterfly weed for July. Let the turtle head, aster, Joe Pye weed, and Queen Anne's lace make the rest of the season brilliant until frost. Let us a little about the likes and dislikes of these plants. Once you started once you are adding to keep this wild flower list. There is no one who does not love the hepatica. Before the spring has really decided to come, comes this little flower of his head and puts everything in the shade. Tucked under a covering of dry leaves the blossoms wait for a jet of warm sunshine to bring them out. These embryo flowers are protected by a fuzzy covering. This is reminiscent of a similar sleeve, the new fern leaves have. In the spring had a hepatica plant wastes no time getting on a new suit of leaves. It makes its old do until the blossom has had its day. Then the new leaves, started before this, have a chance. These delays are willing to help next season. Related liverworts grow in clusters, sort of family groups. You will probably be found in rather open places in forests. The ground is found to be rich and loose. They were to go only in partly shaded places and under good soil conditions. If planted with other woods, copies them the advantage of a rather exposed position, that they can catch the early spring sunshine. I should be starting over with a liverwort small drop in autumn leaves. In the last days of February when the weather is extreme take this leaf for themselves. You can find the hepatica blossoms all ready to dump their heads. The spring beauty hardly allows the hepatica in advance to her. With a white flower, the graceful curves of pink, a thin, wiry stems and narrow, grass-like leaves can bloom this spring not to be confused. You will find spring beauties growing in great patches in rather open places. Planning a number of the roots and allow the sun good opportunity to reach her. For this plant loves the sun. The other March flower mentioned is the saxifrage. That belongs in a completely different type of environment. It is a plant that grows in dry and rocky places. It is often found in crevices of rocks. There is an old story to the effect that the saxifrage roots twine about rocks and work in them, so that the rock itself splits. Anyway, it's a rock garden plant. I have it in dry, sandy places right on the border of a large stone. It has white flower clusters borne on hairy stems. The columbine is another plant that is very likely to be found in rocky places. Standing below a ledge and looks, one sees here and there, nestled in crevices of a plant or more of columbine. The nodding red heads bob on wiry, slender stems. The roots are not deep into the ground, yes, often barely cover the ground it. Well, just because the columbine has little soil, it is not to say that it is indifferent to soil conditions. For it has always lived, and should continue to live, under good drainage conditions. I wonder if it has come to you, how really hygienic plants are? Lots of fresh air, proper drainage, and good food are fundamentals with plants. It is clear from the study of these plants how easy it is to find out what plants like. After studying their feelings, then do not make the mistake of them all huddled together under poor drainage conditions. I always have a sense of personal affection for the flowers. If they come to me always feel that now things are starting to calm down outside. You start with a rich, beautiful, delicate little blue flowers. In June gets hotter and hotter their color faded a bit, until sometimes they look quite worn and white. Some people call them Quaker ladies, others innocence. Under any name they are charming. They grow in colonies, sometimes in sunny fields, sometimes by the road side. From this we learn that they are more particular about the open sunlight than about the earth. If you pick a flower and using bind request, then the wild geranium is not your flower. It pitched roof very quickly after harvest and almost immediately drops its petals. But the purple flowers are conspicuous, and the leaves, while rather coarse, are deeply cut. This effect gives a certain boldness to the plant, which is quite attractive. The plant is rather damp, shady sections partially found in the woods. I like this plant in the garden. It adds good color and permanent color lasts so long flowering period, as there is no object in picking it. There are numbers and numbers of wild flowers I might have suggested. Those I have mentioned were not given for the purpose of a flower guide, but only with one end in view your understanding of how the soil conditions to study the work of the beginning of a wild flower garden. If you fear results, but take one or two flowers and study what you choose. Having mastered, or better know a few, add more another year to your garden. I think you will love your wild garden best of all, before you are through with him. It is a real study, you see.