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 FLOWER GARDENING

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Growing flowers in your garden, this can be in borders around the edges, pots, hanging baskets or in the green house.

Popularity
Very popular activity with many homes across the world being presented in a glow of colour and scent. Many television programmes and shows are now available.

Location
At home, flower shows, stately homes there are fine examples of flower gardens all over the world.

Age
Many young children start growing their own flowers with the supervision of a parent or grand parent.

Ability
An interest in flowers is the only real ability that you will need, you can start small projects in a pot so ideal for children and disabled people or to landscape whole gardens you will need a degree of physical fitness.

Description
Growing flowers is an age old interest, with many different varieties now on the market, you can grow from seed yourself or you can by plugs of different varieties of flowers already starting to grow plugs are simple and easy you buy them at the appropriate season dig a small hole and insert them feed and water them and then watch them grow. If growing from seed you may need the use of a green house though growing on a small scale you could utilise a shelf in a room in the house.

Dedication
You will need a great deal of dedication as growing flowers need to be fed with a good plant food and kept watered, a regular weeding programme and dead heading finished blooms will need to carried out to keep pots and borders clear and fresh and maintain growth. There is also quite a science to serious flower gardening, such as knowing what types of flower to grow in what particular soil, which flowers prefer shade and which sunlight, which can stand cold winds etc.

Potential
The potential is to fill your garden with beautiful blooms and make your home as pretty as a watercolour and become natures natural perfumery, from this you can move onto competitions, shows, selling flowers, or become a landscape gardener.

Closely Related Activities
Growing Vegetables 284, Gardening showing 283, window boxes 285, Flower Arranging 260, Bottle gardening 278.

Cost
Growing flowers can start from below £1.00 for a packet of seeds and rise in cost from there depending on weather you require a green house or poly tunnels, check for up to date prices at DIY stores, most have a gardening section, or at your local garden centre.

Level of Demand
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