Five Easy to Grow Flowers For Your Garden
Posted: Saturday, May 23, 2009
by Susan Schlenger
Susan Schlenger Landscape Design
There are many easy to grow flowers available. Whether you are looking for perennials or annuals, low maintenance flowers come in many sizes and colors. Most people like perennials since they return every year. Each perennial will have it's own amount of blooming time, and obviously the longer blooming perennials are desirable.
Here are some of my favorite flowers that take little care. They may be drought resistant where a lot of watering is not necessary. They are not fussy and look good naturally. Only some minimal maintenance is needed, such as cutting them back to about three inches in the fall or early spring. Removing finished flowers will foster additional flowering, but only do this if you have the time or want to.
1. Lavender 'Hidcote'
This Lavender has gray-green foliage and lovely purple spikes of flowers that bloom around June. It blooms for quite a long time, requires very little water and is extremely fragrant. It gets to be about twelve inches or more, yet the long slender flowers make it appear taller when in bloom. If you have any Roses in your garden, plant the Lavender nearby, as they look great together.
Coneflower comes in great colors… light pink, dark pink, medium pink, peachy pink, white and so on. They are medium to tall in height and have large, show, daisy-like blooms. Coneflower is a mid to late summer, long blooming perennial. It looks nice with Fountain Grass or Maiden Grass.
3. Butterfly Bush
This perennial comes in various heights, from four feet to about eight feet or taller. Whether you decide on one in pink, purple or white, they are all beautiful. This is another perennial that blooms for a long time, especially if you remove the finished flowers. It is also drought resistant. So sit in your garden and enjoy this low maintenance plant along with all the butterflies you see fluttering around and on the flowers.
4. Catmint 'Walker's Low'
If you are looking for a low-care perennial, this is one that you must have. Purple, long blooming flowers adorn the plant...a plant that only wants you to admire it to be happy! During the summer, you can cut it back to about six inches or so, and it will grow all over again with new blooms. This Catmint grows to about twelve inches high, but can get quite wide, so be sure to leave enough room for it....about thirty to thirty six inches.
5. Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
By the end of summer, many perennials have past their prime, but not this one. It begins blooming end of summer and continues late into the fall. It has soft, medium pink colored flowers and looks great with ornamental grasses. This is one plant that definitely does not like to be kept wet...what could be better when looking for easy to grow flowers!
I mentioned ornamental grasses, these also are easy to grow but technically don't flower. They get beautiful plumes. Consider adding them to your flower garden as the change in texture looks nice with many flowering perennials.
Susan Schlenger is a professional landscape designer and has a degree in Landscape Architecture. You can learn more about low maintenance perennials and see pictures at Easy To Grow Flowers
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)Very informative and well written.Thank you very much...I appreciate your taking the time to comment!
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