Kids find not only a playground in their own garden but also the opportunity to join adults and learn how to grow plants.
The best way to introduce kids to gardening art is to offer to create their own flower bed.
However, not all decorative compositions are suitable for kids.
After all, you need to think about safety, and the simple caring for plants. So let’s focus on the main criteria of how to create a kid’s garden.
Choosing Plants for a Children’s Flower Garden
Plants for the flower bed, which the child will take care of.
Colourful, long-blooming, easy to care plants that can be grown from seed are the best option and decoration of the garden.
The children’s flower garden has three simplified versions:
- a flower bed from summer-blooming seed plants;
- a garden from seedlings;
- a garden from bulbs.
Among the bulbous plants, few plants can bloom already in the year of planting, so the choice is not so easy to make.
The magnificent digging crops stored in winter outside the soil will come to the rescue — dahlias, gladiolus flower, etc. — plants with bright flowering that grow from bulbs.
If the child likes to create his blooming garden, plant tulips, crocuses, daffodils and other bulbs in autumn, which will delight with the first flowers in the spring and arrange a real parade of beauty.
Practical Nuances of a Children’s Flower Garden
The flower bed should be located in the sunny, cosy, warm areas.
You should not hide it in a distant corner of the garden so that you can quickly get there.
The choice of the place itself is better to do by the child (or offer him at least several alternative options).
Most often, children’s flower beds are placed near the playground, recreation area or on the lawn.
If you decide to introduce your child to gardening, you should purchase a special set of children’s tools.
Mini shovel, hoe, and rake are included in standard kits. When working in a garden, a child will also need gloves, an apron, special shoes, a watering can, a bucket, and a scoop.
Choose bright colours and turn even routine work into a game.
There is nothing difficult in creating a flower garden for kids:
- Start with the boundaries of the future flower bed;
- Even if the soil is in perfect condition, help your kid dig up and fluff it up, explain how to pick out weeds and stones;
- Fill the flower bed with plants, moving from perennials to seedlings and from the centre to edges;
- Water the plants together and be sure to place flags that indicate where the plants were planted.
Weeding, watering, loosening the soil will not only teach the child a garden art, but also discipline.
A little care, explanation, encouragement, and fun will help maintain interest in gardening. Good luck!