Flowering Fence Plants
Whether or not you grow your plants near a fence, the flowers your plants hold are some of the most impressive features in a garden. In this chapter, we’ll explore a few ideas about choosing flowering plants for your fence garden.
Selecting Flowering Fence Plants
Color, texture, size, and quantity are all relevant factors for you to consider when choosing flowering plants. Flowers can come in an impressively wide range of varieties, giving you plenty of options to choose from.
The most noticeable qualities of flowers are often their colors. These colors can range from white to pink, purple, red, orange, yellow, and more. Essentially, you can select from the entire rainbow when choosing flowering plants. Your goal should be to choose colors that complement the color of your fence and any other nearby plants.
The other flower traits are often secondary to the color but are crucial to your garden’s appearance as well. Some plants bloom with copious amounts of flowers that can be large or small. Others offer singly held flowers with interesting shapes and reproductive structures. Texture also comes into play with flowers, and you’ll find that there are many different textures that flowering plants can have.
Light Requirements for Flowering Plants
Flowers will grow in nearly any growing setting. However, most of the best ornamental flowering plants will exhibit their best blooming characteristics when they grow in full sunlight.
Sunlight typically gives flowering plants the high amounts of energy they need to develop impressive blooms. As such, flowering plants are best for locations that get plenty of sun exposure. For example, if you have a south-facing fence, flowering plants may be some of the best plant options for you.
Creating Color in Different Seasons
Flowers bloom during different times of the year. You should be aware not only of your plants’ blooming traits, but also when those traits will be present.
One of the most impressive effects that you can create in the garden is what many call a “march of color,” a phrase indicating that your garden has multiple flowering plants that each bloom during different seasons. When done well, your flowering plants will bloom one after another, adding variety, while also maintaining a consistent presence of bright, colorful garden flowers.