There’s nothing like adding vibrant color to your North Texas landscape with the addition of annual flowers. While this sounds like a simple enough task—and it can be for landscaping companies in North Texas who are true pros when it comes to enhancement work—there are also more nuances to it than most homeowners realize.
Even some of the seemingly “small details” can make a big difference when it comes to the overall look of the completed landscape.
That’s why we’ve rounded up 5 important tips on how to plant annual flowers in North Texas. Our annual flower planting guide will help you get the biggest impact and best results with your annual flower installation.
Homeowners often don’t realize how important the proper spacing of annuals is until they see them laid out. A very common mistake is to spread annuals “here and there” all around the property instead of thoughtfully placing them together in nice groupings.
This can create a messy and “scattered” look. After all, a couple of Petunias in between your shrubs will have very little to no impact on the overall enhancement of your property. In fact, you’ll barely notice them. You want enough flowers in a group to allow them to make an impact.
Beyond awkward spacing, planting flowers too close together can also be problematic and result in stunted growth, fewer blossoms, and maintenance problems. Each plant has a recommended spacing requirement that your landscape pro should take into account in terms of future growth.
Along those same lines, we often find that homeowners tend to be unsure of how many flowers are needed to have the optimal impact. This is a decision that even some landscapers struggle with if they don’t have an eye for design.
More often than not, the number of flowers is underestimated and the potential “wow factor” is lost as a result. But on the flip side, having too many flowers is not ideal, either.
Certain flower varieties can really start to “take over” your plant beds if you aren’t careful. In particular, large aggressive flowers will overpower smaller, more delicate ones, and you end up with a monoculture of one type of flower which can also detract from the “wow factor.” After all, you likely wanted a nice variety of flowers, not a single type.
The color scheme is also important to annual flower installation; Some colors just look better together than others. You might choose a series of different colors but you still want to be sure they don’t clash in a way that detracts from the appeal.
Of course, choosing a flower color scheme can require an eye for design that not all landscapers have. It’s important that you choose to work with a company that will have a good idea of what colors go best together in order to give you the most possible impact from your annual flowers.
It can all be a bit more complex than people realize, which is why it makes sense to involve a pro from the start.
With annual flowers in North Texas, you need to think about bloom time. A landscape designer who has a strong knowledge of plant material can ensure that there is always something colorful and blooming, no matter what the time of year.
That will prevent you from having unsightly “bald spots” in your plant beds or times of the year when there is nothing in bloom at all! Different plants offer different forms of color at varying times of the year. As a result, you want the flower design to be strategically laid out with this in mind.
Keeping your flowers looking their best also requires some understanding of how they need to be maintained. Deadheading flowers, for instance, will encourage your plants to continue to bloom throughout the season.
The idea is to trim off the flowers once they begin to fade, making your plant beds neater but also extending the growing season by allowing your flowers to put energy into new buds.
Of course, there are some flowers, like Begonias, that don’t require deadheading. A professional landscaper will have a solid understanding of which flowers need what type of care in order to produce the optimal results.
At the end of the day, what you really want is a fantastic-looking landscape. But you don’t want to deal with any of the hassles involved in achieving it.
Chances are, you want to work with a landscaping company that already knows what flowers will look best and how to coordinate their arrangement on your property. Along those same lines, you want to choose a landscape company that will be able to care for those annual lowers and keep them looking their best.
The last thing that you want is to make an investment in a company only to have the beautiful enhancement work go to waste.
As a busy homeowner, you just want to work with someone who can take over it all. That is, someone who can guide you to the best options (and is available to answer any questions that you may have) but that takes the reins so that you don’t have to worry about it!
At Grassperson, that’s exactly what we do. If you want to add an enhancement project such as annual flowers to your Total Maintenance Package, we can certainly do that and we can help guide you toward what might work best for you.
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