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As your grow with your home, you may start wanting to add to its landscaping. The hedge row is nice, and the annuals look pretty popping out of the mulch, but you\u2019re ready to take the next leap in giving your yard a personalized character.<\/p>\n
This being the case, you\u2019ve probably considered planting a flower bed around a tree. It doesn\u2019t take a lot of time or money, but it makes your yard pop. It\u2019s a great idea, but don\u2019t just go planting stuff all willy nilly. You need some tips, so here are some:<\/p>\n
You want to trim away some lower branches, so that the flowers going in will get proper sunlight and space to grow. This isn\u2019t a problem on large, well-established trees, of course, but if these are saplings or younger trees, you need to take a little extra care to make sure your plants aren\u2019t interfering with each other\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n
Your first instinct will be to plant a raised bed, because raised beds look cool and raising them allows you to put down fresh potting soil. This is probably not a good idea, however. The reason is that you might kill the tree. See, the tree\u2019s roots need oxygen, and when you cover them with all the dirt and other detritus of a raised flower bed, you run the risk of choking off the roots. This is not such a problem for old, established trees, but be careful around younger ones. And keep in mind it could take years for the damage to reveal itself.<\/p>\n
This advice applies to any growing situation, of course, but make sure the flowers you\u2019re planting will do well in the partial shade they\u2019ll enjoy under a tree. Find a plant that needs the sunlight-shade balance it will get under your tree, and make sure you\u2019re not planting anything that will want to grow too large. You don\u2019t want a plant that\u2019s going to start taking over your tree\u2019s lower branches. And, of course, pay attention to your\u00a0planting zone<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dig a hole for each individual plant, being careful to dig it to just the right size, and to avoid damaging the tree\u2019s roots while you do it. This is where you can give your flowers some good food in the form of potting soil or compost. You want a hole that\u2019s just a little bit bigger than the root ball of the plant going inside it.<\/p>\n Once you\u2019ve done that, give your flowers a good watering and you\u2019re all set. Keep in mind that tree roots will steal water from the flowers, so you will lkely need to give the flowers more water than you would if you planted them in some other space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As your grow with your home, you may start wanting to add to its landscaping. The hedge row is nice, and the annuals look pretty popping out of the mulch, but you\u2019re ready to take the next leap in giving your yard a personalized character. This being the case, you\u2019ve probably considered planting a flower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Plant in Holes<\/h2>\n