What are some pretty and cheap plants and flowers?

Question

They have to be able to survive outside all year round though.

Answer 1

the one in your avatars hair lol

Answer 2

A woody type plant that blooms during the summer is usually stronger and handles the winter.
Problem is. What you plant in the State of Washington for flowers and what you plant in the State of Florida are quite different.

Up north. Use evergreens for plants. They stay green through winter. They have some leaf type evergreens that will bloom. Be sure to ask for evergreen types or you have just sticks in winter because they drop their leave and go dormate.

In Florida. Choose plants for shape and color of the leaves. The hot summer is hard on plants but native plants hold up. The leaves are all shades of burgandy to red... varigated.. shades of green. The shape of the leave are your plant art. But in Florida, the winter month is the time for Petunias and the small flowering bedding plants.
Check out your neighbors yard, go for a ride and see what they have.. take a picture of a yard you like... then go to a nursery or garden shop, show them what you like and they will help you.
It is best to not ask the clerks in places like Lowe's, Home Depot or grocery stores... they are hired to take your money and seldom know much about the various products in that type of store.
Your local Co op Extension office (look under Government Offices in the phone book) is very good at helping gardners. Many Universities have a department that provides the public information on plant life.

Answer 3

you're for sure a Brit, together as i'm interior the States. A backyard sloping upwards from the home is a great danger which you would be able to plant flowers and flowering timber and shrubs which will all be seen from the residing house, some thing you won't be able to easily do if the floor is flat. placed the flowers close to the backside, timber interior the middle and small timber on the proper, with perhaps a stone direction winding upwards. under the timber, flow away an open section the place you're transforming into an arch, and a table and bench with a view. perhaps additionally a playhouse on your baby someplace.

Answer 4

As far as I am concerned you cannot do better than cannas. There are several variates in all different colors. They tend to be very hard in zone 6 and below, and they multiply wherever they are planted. They are easy to break or cut the root into pieces and start a colony in another area of the yard.

You can get them at Wal-Mart in bulb (rhizome) form, or you can get a good selection on eBay.

Answer 5

You want Perennials. Do a simple search in Yahoo, Google, AltaVista, DogPile for: plant nurseries. search the sites for perennials and choose what you love.

Friends are a great source for cheap plants - Free Plants - ask for cuttings and/or seeds, share the wealth.

I have lots of seeds, want some? Gerbera Daisy, Cosmos, zinnia....lots and lots. Have fun

Answer 6

It would depend on where you live. If it is cold there in the winter then no flower will live outside. I bring alot of my flowers inside during the winter but they are outside the rest of the time.
I start all of my flowers from seed in the spring. Marigolds, pansies, poppies, baby's breath, zinnia's

Answer 7

Garden Ridge. Its a shopping center for decorating. They have fake plants too.

Answer 8

It kind of depends on your climate. Geraniums are pretty and cheap and they are pretty hardy, too. They also grow fairly quickly, at least where I live.

If you visit your local nursery, they should be able to give you good advice based on where you live.

Answer 9

If you are not too late, perhaps you could trot down to your nearest garden centre and find a few bargains, because they will, if they haven't done so already, be making space for their Christmas trade.

Answer 10

Go to gardenweb.com You will find every thing you need! go to the seed trade forum, or the plant forum. Injoy! :) Arum

Answer 11

do what i do, you can get some rare cool plants off of ebay and mostly cheap, but don't do it now because most likly it will freeze before it gets to your house.