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After the flower bed is dug up, and the landscaping is in place, the next thing to consider is the plants themselves. Do you want to have color throughout the year or only in certain seasons? Do you leave town in certain times such as the mid summer? If this is often the case, be sure to obtain flowers that are low maintenance during those times, such as mid summer or that bloom in the springtime.

omg. I can't even plan dinner.

What I want from my garden is plants that come back so I don't have to replant every year. I noticed that some bloom early and don't return. I also have property gardeners who sometimes take pity on me so I don't know what I did right and what they did for me. I sometimes remember that nature won't water my plants for me all the time.

What is your advice for someone as hopeless as me?

koan;1406260 wrote: What is your advice for someone as hopeless as me?
Reading the entire article from 2006 might be a good start.

Planning Your Flower Garden

koan;1406260 wrote: What is your advice for someone as hopeless as me?
Reading the entire article from 2006 might be a good start.

Planning Your Flower Garden

My post is carefully created to find out of flowerperson is willing to read, think, and respond instead of copy/paste. There is always the small chance that some will break from their expected pattern. We almost got one promoter to stay and contribute creatively a long time ago. He was a clever chap when you looked past the first post.

I'm with you.

Planning for our "garden" goes something like,

Well, Aunt Sybil sent us the very nice Lily. We should stick it over in that bare spot and see if it grows.

If it's happy there, it will come back next spring, if not, Aunt Sybil will probably send another one next Easter.

If an area gets overgrown we dig up a chunk and throw it up back by the fence. Surprisingly, that is our best looking area in the yard after all these years.:guitarist