Sometimes it is difficult to achieve colors for all seasons. There is no iota of doubt that everyone would love to see a garden full of blooms through out a year. You have to plan well for your garden to have colors for all seasons. You have to go into every detail of the flowers. Like when is their bloom time? What kind of soil they need? What is their range of height? Do they require full sun or partial sun and partial shade? When you come to know all the above details you can plan your garden in such a way that they have colors throughout.

Lets us see all the ways which will help us to keep our gardens in color all season:

1. Deadheading

Removing dry blossoms is the easiest and simplest way to keep your plants blooming. Annuals particularly will profit from an occasional deadheading. Flowers actually produce seeds. Once seeds are formed the plants have no reason to bear flowers any more.

Many recurrent flowers will also bloom again if deadheaded. Exclusions are recurrent that bloom on one tall flower stalk. They are the astilbe or iris. Also perennial flowers that require a chilling season to blossom are also exclusions to recurrent reblooming.

2. Shearing

Deadheading cannot be applied to flowers that have multiple buds on their flower stalks. Deadheading becomes a nightmare in that case. In this case they can be sheared unto 1/3 of the plant. This you can do till all the buds fade. This rejuvenates the plant. New fresh leaf and lots of new flower buds will appear. The plants retrieve quickly. Early bloomers seem to be draggled by the middle of the season.

3. Pruning

A cunning way to sustain the perennial blooms is to clip the plants in steps. Try to divide the plant into three sections like the front, center and back. As soon as the plants grow about 6-8" tall, you can cut the front and center by about 1/3 to 1 / 2. Now let the plant grow again to 6-8" tall and now you have to prune the front section in the same dimension.

This type of trimming will ensue plants turning into 3 levels and so it can bloom in sequence. The rear part blooms first and as it fades the center portion blooms. Finally the front part will bloom. The front section actually grows very tall and this helps in hiding all the withering plants behind it.

4. Re-Seeding

To extend the bloom of annuals you can re-seed quick growing annuals. This will be about 4 weeks soon after the initial seeding.

5. Feeding

Plants spend a lot of vigor in flowering. The more they blossom, the more food they demand. So take care and keep on adding good soil, water them properly and add fertilizer.

6. Produce colorful foliage

Flowers come and go but the foliage remains. Sprinkle the beds in your garden with a few shrubs and include sprinting annuals. You will have colors through the season.