How is the best way to design your flower beds that gets direct sun?
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What is you location? Do you want annuals or perennials?
Use flower pots, planters, etc. Less work!
look thru some garden magazines and get your preferences down. You can even purchase seed for entire gardens in a package.
The best way to design a snazzy, full sun, low maintenance flower bed is to get a list of native perinnials and pick some with the sun, color and size requirements for your beds. Then you can fill in with some annual color.
There is a great resource near you. I've attached the link to their website below.
http://longislandnatives.com/
Hope that helps
:)
make sure to plant perinals so you don't have to replant ever year and the plants fill out the bed on the own. Like Lilly's and hostas
Mexican mock orange, a flowering shrub that takes up a lot of space, and loves the sun. Yucca plants are a dry sunny garden staple, ask at the garden centre for plants that thrive in hot sunny locations.
Tall next to the house, medium in the center, including short shrubs, small in the front, groundcover if you must. And every height comes in many colors. Keep annuals, like tulips, petunias, most strawberries, etc. close to the front (and I like the container idea). Taller shrubs and especially calla lilies can provide a contrasting color. The lilies will die and fall over, and you can cut them off at ground level. But don't dig them up. Where you live, they will root and you may have lilies for the rest of your life. Best wishes 😇
'Direct sun' means different things depending on where you live. in Fl, your selection is a lot smaller than a more temperate or northern climate. Smaller or dwarf bushes need the least maintenance (over perennials). You can get some pretty flowering ones. There are also ones with variegated foliage and you can choose varying shades of green, too - everything from chartreuse to grayish, as well as colored foliage like purple and red. Don't use any flowering plants that need the old blossoms removed - that's maintenance! Hostas need shade, not full sun. Most lilies want the old blossoms removed. I'm sold on shrubs as long as they don't need any pruning or hedging more than once a year. I need very low maintenance in full Florida sun, so am still working on this myself.
Plant roses! They love sun.
i planted Hawaiian lay trees...they grow about 6 to 8 ft high. They bloom beautiful white flowers in the spring n summer. Where I planted them they get all day sun. Except the late evening. And their so easy to maintain.
I also planted I don't no what their called. But they get very bushy, you can break stems off it an replant without having to root them first. An in the winter early spring the grow real tiny red leaf like flowers. All you have to do is clip them back when they get over grown.
Joyce, I'm thinking the "Hawaiian lei" tree is a plumeria. This is a tropical plant, so unless you live in a tropical area, you'd have to take cane cuttings and replant every year. I live in NE Florida and it dies in the winter here, too. But it is a beautiful plant/tree and has a heavenly scent. Almost worth taking cane cuttings to replant next year! I did for a couple of years, but it did not qualify as low maintenance under these conditions, so I gave up ;-)