Choosing Flowering Plants For An Organic Garden

There is a simple and fool-proof way to select flowering plants that will enhance the beauty of an organic garden year around. Rather than poring over books with pictures of flowering plants; struggling with unpronounceable Latin names of the plants; and making numerous trips to the nursery to determine if the plants you select are available, let your local nursery do the work for you. Nurseries make money by selling attractive plants; more significantly, to stay in business, they must feature plants that flower at all times of the year, not continuously but seasonably. Thus, if you visit your local nursery periodically throughout the year, in a year or so, you will be able to purchase seasonable plants that will provide color to your garden the entire year unless, of course, you are living in the frozen tundra of Alaska or the Midwest. If that is the case you, unfortunately, you will be stuck with the color white for six or more months of the year, great for making snowmen but not so good for enhancing the beauty of your frozen garden. A significant advantage of this methodology for selecting flowering garden plants results from the fact that nurseries, with few exceptions, only stock plants that will do well in the climate in which you live. Thus, you do not have be too concerned about whether or not the plants you select will thrive in your garden. Not only is nursery shopping a wise way to select plants for the garden it also is a lot of fun. I look forward to my periodic visits to our local nurseries in my never-ending search for new plants that will increase the beauty of my organic garden, I know you will too!