Choosing Plants For Your Garden

Executive Summary by: Jonathan Ya’akobi

Most of the time we run to the plant nursery and buy our garden plants without giving much thought to the type of plant care that must be given to these plants.

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Things to consider before buying your plants.

• Do we want perennial plants or annual plants?
• Does our garden have the right amount of sun or shade?
• Is the ph level right for the plants we select?

When we consider the above aspects of our garden we then can determine the proper
plants we need for our garden. We can then get shade loving plants for the shady areas and sun loving plants for the sunny areas of our garden.

We can either adjust our soil to the plants we buy or buy plants that are well suited for the existing soil.

You will need to know how tall each plant will grow.

Garden Plants – The Type Of Plants You Should Avoid Putting In Your Garden

• Poisonous plants

Admittedly, many plants are toxic to at least some extent.

• Spiky and thorny plants

As with plants that posses some level of toxicity, the exclusion of every thorny species would mean that many excellent ornamental mainstays would be lost to the garden. Without going to such lengths, it is nonetheless prudent to avoid plants that can cause serious injury.

If you want a palm tree in the garden, choose a non-violent type like Archontophoenix instead. It is worthwhile therefore taking an inventory of the plants currently in your garden.

You may want to check out my other guide on garden bulbs and garden pots.