Easy to Grow Flowers for Display
Do you like to use flowers arrangements in your home? The hobby greenhouse provides great opportunities for the gardener who also likes to dry or use fresh flowers in arrangements to beautify the home. You can grow flowers in pots or in beds in the greenhouse, but you will find that by making a box to build a flowerbed in your greenhouse will give you fuller and taller flowers for your creations. Of the many, many varieties of flowers that you can grow and use in your home we are going to talk about just a few; the Bachelor Button, the Carnation, and the Marigold.

Posted Wednesday, April 5, 2006

When you plant your seeds, using a wide variety of colors will make wonderful displays in your greenhouse and will also give you many options for display use in your home. Bachelor Buttons are found in blue, red and yellow with a few shade differences in between. Only water the Bachelor Button when the soil is fairly dry. As you have flowers that come, go, and dry up you can cut off the tops of these plants to make them produce new flowers for your display. Because this is a taller type plant, you may want to stake this flower up so that it doesn't fall over and break off to far below the flowers.

Carnations are one of the most well known flowers and are often used in fresh flower displays. If you have one carnation plant you can take cuttings to start new carnation plants. Starting carnations in the fall and keeping their soil dry between watering will be important. There are many colors of carnations that you can grow with white and red most often the favorite. This is also a taller type plant that you may need to stake up as it grows.

Marigolds will brighten your day because of the many color options they are available in. There are many gardeners who do not like to grow marigolds in their hobby greenhouse because of their strong smell, but I think the color overcomes this draw back. You can grow marigolds throughout the winter as long as you keep your heat above freezing as they are a hardy plant. After the flowers die off you can dry out the seeds and have an entire new crop of marigolds to enjoy.