A flower garden is a form of garden usually grown for decorative purposes, centering primarily on the kinds of flowers produced by the plants involved. Because flowers bloom at varying times of the year, and some plants are annual, dying each winter, the design of flower gardens can be sophisticated, taking such matters into consideration to keep blooms, even of specific color combinations, consistent or present through varying seasons. A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. ... For other articles with similar names, see Flower (disambiguation). ... Annual, from the Latin annuum, or year means pertaining to a year or happening every year. ...

These have grown in complexity over the years, and are sometimes tied in function to other kinds of gardens, like knot gardens or herb gardens, many herbs also having decorative function, and some decorative flowers being edible. Knot gardens were first established in the UK in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Knot Garden at St Fagans museum of country life, south Wales A knot garden is a very formal design of garden in a square frame and grown with a variety or aromatic plants and culinary... A herb garden is a garden specifically designed and used for teh cultivation of cooking and/or medicinal herbs. ...

One simpler solution to flower garden design, growing in popularity, is the pre-planned wildflower seed mix. Assortments of seeds are created which will create a bed that contains flowers of various blooming seasons, so that some portion of them should always be in bloom. The best mixtures even include combinations of perennials and biennials, which may not bloom until the following year, and also annuals which are "self-seeding", so they will return, creating a permanent flowerbed. A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... Look up Biennial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Biennial is a term referring to a period of two years, much in the same way centennial refers to 100 years. ...

History

Many, if not most, plants considered decorative flowers originated as weeds, which if attractive enough would sometimes be tolerated by farmers because of their appeal. This led to an artificial selection process, producing ever-prettier (to humans) flowers. The notion of weed is almost entirely in the eye of the beholder. ...

Once domesticated, though, most flowers were grown either separately or as part of gardens having some other primary function. In the West, the idea of gardens dedicated to flowers did not become common until the 19th century, though in fact many modern gardens are indeed flower gardens.

Flower gardens are, indeed, a key factor in modern landscape design and even architecture, especially for large businesses, some of which pay to have large flower gardens torn out and replaced entirely each season, in order to keep the color patterns consistent.

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