Outdoor Flower Garden Plants
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OUTLINE
Topic: Outdoor Flower Garden Plants
Specific Purpose: To Inform
Organizational Pattern: Topical Order
INTRODUCTION
I. "There is nothing in this life pleasanterthan to wander through woods, plains, garlanded and adorned with plants of various sorts, and most elegant to boot, and to gaze intently upon them" is the opening of Peter Coats' book "Flowers In History (pg. 7)."
Ask any gardener and they will likely agree with this statement.
Picture the young child who picks a beautiful dandelion to give to his mother just to see her smile.
This is what a flower garden is to a gardener; it has no practical use, but is there just to see smiles, and to express their vision of nature's beauty .
II. I had gained years of experience gardening though my life growing up on a farm, but I still had a good deal to learn about the finer aspects of flower gardening.
When I created my first flower garden, I did research with books, magazines, and other gardeners (which I found to be the most useful.)
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