Gardening & Landscaping
Tifferz13
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Newbie
So we've only been in our house for a little over 3 weeks and while my husband isn't a gardening person and I'm not really either I'm kind of wanting to get into it. We have these two bushes that are on our bank and I want to chop them down and start planting other flowers. However I don't know where to start... I know I want something that will grow back every year and something that's pretty but I'm a newbie!!
Re: Newbie
We have these two bushes that are on our bank and I want to chop them down and start planting other flowers.
If they are bushes, you are going to have to dig down deep with a shovel and get the entirety of the root also.
However I don't know where to start... I know I want something that will grow back every year and something that's pretty but I'm a newbie!!
Things that grow back year after year are called "perennials". Things that grow all summer, but only one year, are "annuals".
Perennials: carnations, lillies, tulips, lilly of the valley, daisies
Annuals: petunias, geraniums
Great floral bushes: Lilacs, Rose of Sharon
When planting in the ground, things that come back every year can be placed in spots you want them to come up every year. In most cases perennials come up no matter how much rain you have, whether it's warm or cold, the timeframe for their return each spring or summer is simply based on how the winter/spring has been.
Annuals are great in baskets on a porch, or in hanging pots. They require a lot of care throughout the year, watering every day or 2. BUT, the good news is with all that care you get lovely flowers all summer long, they keep blooming with new flowers. I never saw the point in having annuals until I realized how much nicer the front of my house looked with a few hanging baskets on shepherd hooks. Lots of "color pop" all summer long.
Your best friend is your local nursery or Home Depot or Lowe's for flowers. They won't carry a plant that doesn't do well in your geographic area. Read the labels on the plants and follow them: full sun means it needs full sun, partial sun or shade means just that.
Also, use a good garden or potting soil with fertilizer already in it. Makes things easy.
I don't really know if there bushes per say or flowers. I do know however we haven't lived here a month and the first week they bloomed and were pretty and white and then now there an UGLY brown dingy color.
Thanks for clarifying the difference I honestly wouldn't have known! I did go to Home Depot today with the Hubs and we looked at some flowers to plant and I plan on going back in a few weeks and starting my "Flower Garden"