The Backyard Garden: One of the Simple Pleasures in Life
Letting your kids help you start a garden is a great way to get them interested in plants. Photo Credit: Elva Etienne/Getty Images
For many, the backyard is a place to open up a gardening space and grow some plants, be they vegetables or ornamentals. If ornamentals are your passion, gather planting and plant-selection ideas from the following articles.
Go Wild With Plants!
Flag plants such as this yellow flag grow well in wet soil. Photo Credit: Vast Photography/Getty Images
On the prior page, the focus was on cultivated plants that you can grow in your yard. But do not forget the various types of wildflowers that can spice up your backyard, too. An example is shown in this picture: yellow flag, which is a kind of wild iris. A better choice in eastern North America would be the native, blue flag. Both are good plants for wet areas, such as the one displayed in the photo.
But more and more people are becoming interested specifically in native plants.
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