What are good flowers to start with for a novice gardener?
Monday, February 8th, 2010 at
3:47 pm
Hello. I have sandy soil, live in Michigan, zone 5. The area I want flowers in is about 6×10. The area gets full sun all day and most sun after 2pm. House faces west, the flowers are to be in the front of the house. What flowers are really easy to start with, and what combinations should I use. Any really good websites anyone knows of could help too.
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Rhododentrums are beautiful and eay to take care of. Black eyed susans are good. You want flowers that will be lightly maintenance free and will come back in the spring. Honeysuckle, hostas, lavender, burning bushes, elephant ears, try some herbs, azaelea bushes, hydrangias.
4 O clocks, very easy, hard to kill, they smell wonderful and bloom everday around 4 P.M. Spreading can be problem so have a border. Eveytime I smell them I think of going to my aunts house in Ark. when I was a young child.
Geraniums and impatients.
Daylilys. They come in thousands of colors.
for sunny areas, Daylillies, Shasta Daisy’s, black eyed Susan’s, autumn joy sedum, Karl foerester grass, stargazer Lillie’s. Bulb plants love Sandy soil, like tulips for spring. perennial geraniums are good. as for annuals, try petunias or marigolds.