Have you ever stumbled on a garden of wildflowers? Purples, whites, yellows, blues and a rainbow of color against a verdant background. There's no visible flower garden design to Mother Nature's fields and meadows. Colors that we normally consider "clashing" seem to meld together, painting a living work of art.

This is chaos theory in action, we can't see any visible logic behind it all, still it's perfect and repeating itself in unique but non-chaotic ways.

As seasons change and nature finishes with one color, she frequently picks up another. Even greens are abundantly different, from pale pastels of new spring foliage to the dark steadfastness that evergreens display in winter.

We don't posses all of mother nature's resources, but we can make our own creations unique as well, and garden design software can be a great help to do it.

Contrary to what's practical in your own garden you can draw up multiple settings. See if they look good and decide from a much more educated point. Software is tool we use to get the best result. No more, no less although its fun to experiment.

Like nature, you can paint with flowers, but you don't need a vast field to grow them. You can have an abundance of flowers in very little space.

This type of software is a great tool to help you create a mental picture of your garden, a good design saves you from the dilemma of wondering where to put that "just one more" plant!

If space is a consideration, you may want to enclose your house with flowers, planting vines to hide bare walls, bordering terraces, and designing beds around porches and decks.

However, before you begin deciding on plants, consider the shape of your lot, the condition of your soil, exposures, slopes, your existing plants and trees. Even your neighbors trees are significant in planning what plants will thrive in your flower garden.

Start your design basic and slowly extend to it

Begin planning your garden around a focal point. Will it be your house, a favorite cultivars, color, or will you add a garden feature like a bench, arbor, gate, or statue?

Even a picturesque fence or garden wall can be the focal point of your flower garden. Plant taller annuals and perennials towards the back of your garden when your focal point is a stationary backdrop.

When it's in the center, use it to add vertical interest to your plantings as well as a place to capture the eye of your visitors. When planting a large area or several small ones, do use repetition.

Repeating plants, colors, and textures adds unity to your flower garden.

Spacing plants according to the spread they'll occupy at maturity prevents crowding of larger plants and add impact to small blossomers. Whatever the shape of your garden, do plant your cultivars in groups.

Remember that field of wild flowers? Although a variety of colors may be displayed in the same field, what typically first catches our eye is a sudden burst of a single color. Now that is what I call flower garden design.