Organic Flower Gardening Ideas

Organic Flower Gardening with a container planting concept is a supper idea for a small garden.

If you are looking for some showy hardy types of flowers plants that could produced dark-green leaves with brown hearts; you can consider these generous four leaf clovers, Oxalis deppei (pictures below).

Generally there are annual, perennial, and bulbous; three types of Oxalis plants. These sweet flower plants are also known as Iron Cross. You can grow them in containers; pots; baskets or in the open ground.


You can start sowing the seeds from late winter to early spring; either indoor or outdoor. Insert the mini bulbs about 10cm in the soil; and 10cm apart. However, if you are short of space; just make sure they have sufficient breathing space from each other; they are able to grow pretty well with minimum space.

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These low growing hardy window box flowers require the heat from the sun to expand. They love plenty of water and good drainage 3-inch containers during the growth.


Covering them from the chilling wind in the seed germinating period is necessary; if you are setting your containers outdoor.

Last year, I have grown these four leaf clover plants in 2 separate locations.


I discovered that, those grown in the long green window flower box with ordinary potting soil; next to the South garden hedge were not as cheerful as those in an old basket of sandy loam; which had started first in the greenhouse.


Through my observation, although these flower plants could survived in a half shady place; but they were not so strong as those in the basket. It may be due to too much rain fall during early spring; so very soon their leaves turned into red-yellow and eventually brown; and they had less flowers.

Those plants in the basket were gaining abundance of direct sunlight everyday at the North edge of the garden. Therefore, they bloomed continuously from mid-May to August; and received less insects disturbance.

After an enjoyment from the long session of charming and sweet pink blooms; and the good foliage's; you may collect the seeds before the cold arrives.


These flowering bulbous plants can be propagated by seed, offsets, and division of roots.


Start a charming flower gardening project in your greenhouse now?

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