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What is Your Favorite Low Maintenance Flower?
Posted on 2/1/25 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 2/1/25 at 1:36 pm
Trying to decide what to plant this Spring.
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Posted on 2/1/25 at 2:11 pm to RougeDawg
lantana
coneflower
black eyed Susan
zinnia
Indian blanket
Mexican hat
plant or sow the seeds now
coneflower
black eyed Susan
zinnia
Indian blanket
Mexican hat
plant or sow the seeds now
This post was edited on 2/1/25 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 2/1/25 at 3:22 pm to RougeDawg
Anything in the portulaca/moss rose family is zero maintenance around here.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 3:26 pm to cgrand
+1 for lantana. You can pair it with a butterfly bush for even more color
Posted on 2/1/25 at 3:57 pm to RougeDawg
I always do variegated colors of vinca in my east facing beds. I buy them in the spring and they last me until the freeze which was last week. They get morning/noon sun and full shade in the afternoon. They’re very drought tolerant as well. During the drought last year, I only watered them a handful of times.
I’ll do snapdragons in the winter too sometimes. They’re quite easy.
I’ll do snapdragons in the winter too sometimes. They’re quite easy.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 7:40 pm to RougeDawg
perineum
Lantana
Black and blue salvia
Lantana
Black and blue salvia
Posted on 2/1/25 at 10:21 pm to RougeDawg
It necessarily what you’re asking, but the best thing I’ve potted this past few years is Coleus. Super easy to maintain outside and have one of the biggest I’ve seen that sprouted from a runt.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 11:02 pm to cgrand
quote:
lantana
Toxic for dogs. very toxic.
Plant with this knowledge
Posted on 2/2/25 at 4:53 am to RougeDawg
I planted some Supertunia Vista Bubblegum last yr in a bed and they took off, almost like a ground cover. Will plant again this yr.
Posted on 2/2/25 at 10:28 am to RougeDawg
In my Midwest suburban neighborhood, only marigolds. The ever growing, even with targeted city culling, the deer eat everything else. Even the hostas get chewed back.
Posted on 2/2/25 at 11:02 am to RougeDawg
“Blue daze” morning glories are super easy. Mine get full sun all day and even drape over onto the driveway and the hot concrete doesn’t burn them. When the leaves get a little off color I throw some fertilizer on them. I’m in the process of cutting them down to the ground this weekend. It took until mid January for them to look cruddy.
Dianthas did pretty well this year. I wacked them back aggressively when they got lanky and they kept coming back and flowering all the way into late fall.
The bees love the lantanas and mine have been transplanted all over the yard and still thrive.
Dianthas did pretty well this year. I wacked them back aggressively when they got lanky and they kept coming back and flowering all the way into late fall.
The bees love the lantanas and mine have been transplanted all over the yard and still thrive.
Posted on 2/2/25 at 12:51 pm to cgrand
If you plant lantana, get the smaller/sterile kind or else you'll have monstrous weedy beasts to pull up everywhere in your yard.
+ 1 to coneflower especially if you like tea
I love canna lillies & bearded irises - put em in a wet, sunny spot and they'll do the rest. You can even plant together. We have irises in the spring and cannas all summer & fall
+ 1 to coneflower especially if you like tea
I love canna lillies & bearded irises - put em in a wet, sunny spot and they'll do the rest. You can even plant together. We have irises in the spring and cannas all summer & fall
This post was edited on 2/2/25 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 2/2/25 at 2:02 pm to Bigdawgb
Vincas, and they drop seed pods and will sprout the next spring
Posted on 2/2/25 at 3:40 pm to kook
Zinnias and Sunflowers - by far
Posted on 2/3/25 at 10:01 am to East Coast Band
We have a dog and many lantana plants. I've never observed the dog eating or chewing on it. Do some dogs chew on or eat this plant? Is it attractive to them?
Posted on 2/3/25 at 10:04 pm to BiggerBear
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We have a dog and many lantana plants. I've never observed the dog eating or chewing on it. Do some dogs chew on or eat this plant? Is it attractive to them?
As with anything, some dogs will never chew or tear up anything, some will chew up everything.
I don't think Lantana, (or for that sake oleander or sago palms,all of which could be lethal) is necessarily "attractive" to most dogs, but as I say, some dogs will chew up anything.
We had a chihuahua that ate some Lantana that sent her kidneys into shock and quite frankly should have died. She barely recovered. Learned a lot creatinine levels, etc.
Posted on 2/4/25 at 6:55 am to East Coast Band
4 o'clocks
Posted on 2/4/25 at 9:45 am to RougeDawg
knockout roses
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