10. Educate yourself - the better you understand each component of your garden, the more successful it will be.
9. Just because you know what Helenium is doesn't mean you'll be able to help someone looking for Sneezewort. Common names often bear little resemblance to the formal Latin genus and can often vary between the US and UK.
8. Less can be more. When trying to fill a bed with a variety of flowers, don't simply head to the nursery and start grabbing a vine here and a shrub there all helter skelter. Your plants be much happier - and grow more fully - if choose fewer types and buy three or four of each so they grow together.
7. Take photographs of flowers - particularly in interesting sunlight and after a drenching rain.
6. Compost, compost, compost! (Except if the plant had a contagious disease.)
5. Plant fruits, vegetables, and herbs - they look beautiful and taste even better! Just be sure to check the best times to start each plant to have them ready to harvest at the appropriate time of the season.
4. Many perennials can be trimmed down to bare bones - or at least pruned of deadheads and ailing leaves - in the autumn. This encourages the plant to focus on developing a larger root system in the ground so it can rise from the ashes as a healthy, happy plant in spring.
3. Make sure that your garden is always colourful. Many customers come to the nursery in the spring when the temperature starts to rise, buy beautiful flowering plants, and then wonder why everything looks boring throughout summer and autumn. It is better to create a balance of plants that flower throughout the year so the garden can be full of vibrant colours in every season.
2. It's best not to transplant new plants from the pot to the garden while they are flowering. The plant will be focusing a lot of energy on creating enticing flowers and potential offspring, so introducing it to a new environment just adds even more stress.
1. Love your garden!
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux
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