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Making Your Garden Come Alive with Striking Colors

By Anne Mehla
We all love a garden which is rich with life and color. It is a joy to just sit around and watch it bloom. On the other hand, a garden which is muted in color will appear sad and lifeless. If this is a problem you are having, then there are ways to fix this and inject a lot more color into your garden and we can help. These tips should put you on the right track.
1. Do some deadheadingDeadheading is the process of removing spent blossoms in order to allow new ones to bloom. This will cause more flowers to spring up in every patch and thus bringing more color to your garden. This can be done on annuals, as well as perennial flowers, but there are some exceptions such as perennials that all bloom on a single tall stalk. In order to deadhead, cut off the entire spent flower stalk as close to the base as you can. When there is more than one bud on a single stalk, cut as close as possible to the next unopened one.  
Making Your Garden Come Alive with Striking Colors
2. Re-seed flowersDeadheading does not work for all flowers. Planting annuals is a great way of ensuring that your garden is full of color all year long, but some of them simply bloom and die out before they have time to set more buds. In order to correct this, you will have to re-seed them manually several weeks after they were initially planted.
Making Your Garden Come Alive with Striking Colors
3. Add some foliageNot all color has to come from flowers. A little bit of foliage mixed in will work great as it just keeps getting bigger and bigger all throughout the year.
Making Your Garden Come Alive with Striking Colors
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