Gardening is pretty much a science as it is a way to make your living space beautiful. There are a lot of things that you need to consider. The soil type, the fertilizers needed, the best way to cultivate the plants, the amount of sunlight and water needed for each kind of plant, and even the knowledge on the right combination of plants is needed to ensure that each one is living in harmony and not the other way around.

Depending on where on the surface of the Earth you live, you'll find that there will always be the right flowering plants for your garden. There are a lot of flowering plant varieties, and to the uninitiated or those practically new to gardening will find studying each kind of plant very daunting. It is best, therefore, to study the flowering plants based on major classifications.

Let's begin with the so-called annuals. These plants only live for a year or less and are known to bloom for only a span of three to four months. These plants complete a life cycle in a year. They grow from seeds, bloom, create seeds and then die. Some of the more common garden annuals include asters, dianthus, phlox, basil, Petunias, and Marigold. Annuals are more often used to splash colors to a garden. The bright and quite colorful annuals can also be used as garden borders and hedges.

The second group of garden flowering plants are called biennials or plants that needs two years to grow, bloom and die. Biennials are also seasonal plants and bloom only during its second year. After it blooms the biennial plant will either grow wildly and untidy or will remain healthy up until it dies. You know you have biennials in your hand when you have foxglove, and echium wildprettis.

Perennials, on the other hand, are a group of plants that survives for more than two years and kept on flowering. After its first two years, the perennial plant will start to bloom. These plants would need a lot of sun light and grow ideally on slightly acidic soil. Planting perennials in your garden might no be the most suitable choice especially if you want to vary the style of your garden every now and then.

The shrubs have this distinct characteristic of being woody but are short stemmed and with branches very near the ground. You can find shrubs that fall to both the flowering garden or in an ornamental garden categories. Included in the flowering shrubs lists are ixora, pentas, and hibiscus. What makes shrubs attractive to a garden is that they provide an eye-fetching framework in any garden design. Ornamental shrubs, on the other hand, provide great evergreen foliage, shapes and ornamental outline for your garden. Juniperus, Eranthemum, Aralia, and Acalypha Hispida are the more common ornamental shrubs.

After the shrubs, we have the creepers and climbers. These refers not to creepy people but rather refers to plants that find comfort on your garden walls. These plants will crawl up on the walls and stay there. Among the flowering creepers are bignonia venusta, allamanda, and passiflora. Climbers on the other hand are plants that have very soft stem and grows only with ample support. Some of the varieties of climbers include bleeding heart, grape ivy and clematis.

And last but the the least are the bulbs. If you thought that there only a few bulbs you can use in your garden, think again. This group of plants include the popular tulips, tuberous begonia, calla, Canna lily, snowdrop, hyacinth, Daffodil, Tulip, Iris, Dahlia, gladiolus and lilies.