I am a new gardner.
I planted Firewitch Dianthus plants down our sidewalk. They are doing great!
On either side of our baywindow I planted two trees which are doing fine.
Under our Baywindow I planted a purple budded perenial infront of the bay window. This plant was supposed to need little watering.
Infront of the purple budded plant (don't remember the name) I planted an Ice plant. It had puffy looking leaves, and was supposed to get yellow flowers.
The purple plants did fine for a good while. But the Ice plant was overwatered by myself and ended up with a fungi. I dug them up and re-planted new ones...and rarely watered them. They did GREAT! Then purple plant behind suffered from the lack of water and dried up.
Then we had a week of straight rain,the good looking ice plants shrivled up and died.
Please help! I really want a colorful/pretty area under our window year round. What is a good durrable combo of plants? I in MD. We will go from drought to rain fast in the summer.
2007-11-28 05:58:32 · 3 answers · asked by Mandy25 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Your problem seems to be planting incompatible plants with each other. Ice plant is not really suited to your area, it needs little water and lots of sun and sandy soil. You don't mention the kind of sun or shade. Good perennials for sun include veronica, nepeta, tall phlox, shasta daisies, sedums like Rosy Glow, daylilies,echinacea and a whole host of others. Shade perennials include hosta, ferns, astilbe, coral bell (part
shade), hellebores, and many more. Good shrubs include Rosy Glow barberry, spireas, nandinas (dwarf purple for fall color), there are lovely new shrub roses that need little care. Evergreens include yews, junipers, azaleas and rhododendrons for shade, abelias, among others. There are tons of great web sites for you to look up perennial gardening with thousands of great ideas and plans. If you can, go to your local book store and spend the afternoon looking at gardening books. Good luck!
2007-11-28 07:14:27 · answer #1 · answered by Isadora 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want year round color try a shrub with variegated foliage and use low cost annuals in front of it and change them out every few months.
2007-11-28 06:37:51 · answer #2 · answered by K S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try grouping plants together based on their water needs
2007-11-28 06:03:17 · answer #3 · answered by glenn t 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋