Most homeowners make the mistake of installing reduced flower beds so they can save on costs, and consequently realize they don’t have the chance to add more features to their garden and regret the decision they originally made. Make your flower beds wide enough to add flowering bushes and even small flowering trees. Broader beds are more eye-catching and give you more planting opportunities for that luxurious, coated look you're after.

Use the same species and them vastly. A garden with more than three or four beds of the same plant looks better that one with a few of them. A garden full of one of this and one of that tends to look mixed-up and messy. Most specialists recommend planting all except some of the largest separate plants in odd-numbered groupings or three or more.

Factors such as the height of your plants when they reach maturity are very important when planting your beds. Plant taller flowers toward the back of your beds, but break this flower garden design rule sporadically. Place plants about as far apart as each plant's last spread. Try restraining colors to those that blend well, or put some plants into groups of three to five or more and repeat them among single varieties of other plants.