How do i make a flowerbed? How do i grow tulips and pansies?

my husband and i just bought our first house in December, we live in Charleston SC and the weather is beautiful and their are azalea's in our front yard and a rose bush that bloom on their own with no help from me, i would like to plant some tulips and pansies but i have never planted anything! any suggestions?

How do i make a flowerbed? How do i grow tulips and pansies?
You can pick up packages of tulips at Lowes or Home depot in September in our area. Or you can buy them online at Dutch Gardenshttp://www.dutchgardens.com/on/demandwar... or Colorblends http://www.colorblends.com/Blends. You will save money if you buy them at Lowes or Home Depot but the dutch growers have more variety and will send them at the proper planting time for you area. (Tulips need some winter chill, I put mine in the refrigerator til late Dec in Northern CA)


Pansies are so much fun! The smaller flowered ones hold up to rainy weather better than the big ones. They are quite easy to grow. As for making a flower bed, decide what shape bed you want (I use a garden hose) then outline it with "Mark-it" (available at hardware stores) Dig about 6 inches deep. You will probably have to add some manure or compost to enrich and lighten the soil. If it's sandy soil manure and compost help it too!
Reply:Well if your a beginner I would definitely try daylilies for sunny areas and hostas for shady areas and they are low maintenance and daylilies come in every color imaginable. If you want to grow tulips you have to plant them in the fall. I have about 500 tulips blooming in my front yard and they are gorgeous all mixed colors. lowes and home depot have tulips but the specialty web sites are the best when it comes to variety. They have any color under the sun. Colorblends.com is a great one. pansies I believe are an annual? never bought them so not sure but I think they are, and if they are that means they dont come back every year, where daylilies and hostas and anything called a perennial does. If you want a garden full of color pretty much all year round springblooming flowers are tulips, daffodils, and phlox. Summer is way to many to list you just have to look and see what the flower needs are-sun, shade etc... fall is usually mums and a few other things. web sites I have bought from and trust are colorblends.com for tulips and springhillnursery,com, michiganbulb.com and autumnridgenursery.com carry pretty much any flower you can think of. autumnridgenursery.com has some of the most beautiful roses I have ever seen ir your interested in rosebushes. Good luck!
Reply:~till up the dirt---make sure its not really bad clay.~you may want some fertilizer.


~before you buy the plants...check their lables and see what month they should be planted in and see their sun/shade/water needs---so you know where to put them.


~when you plant the tulip bulbs they should be about 1-2 inches under.


~be very sure to completely cover the 'dirt/root ball," of the pansies, with dirt---about 1 inch deep.


~when planting plants the have been in pot---break up the bottom of the root ball a bit to help the roots grow.


~most plant in hot summer need water everyday---evening or morning is best for watering.





hope this helped! :-)