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Posted: May/20/2007 9:01 AM PST
Help: I have gone from 8 flower beds with 125 daylillies, over 500 tulips, peonies, verbena, and on down to a very small full sun area. Need ideas of what I can plant in full sun that will survive in a small area. Thanks and have a sunny day. Stella |
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Posted: May/20/2007 7:47 PM PST
What do you call a small area? Do you want annuals or perennials? There are zinnas, marigolds, petunias, moss roses for annuals and gaillardia, ruellia,alstroemeria and mums for perennials just to name a few. |
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Posted: Jun/27/2007 7:42 AM PST
canna lilies!! i'm in a townhouse w/ southern exposure on my patio. have a 'bengal tiger' and a 'striped beauty' in big pots and they just grow like mad - almost 6 ft last season. the tiger gets huge tangerine flowers and the beauty, yellow. easiest plant in the world to grow...i'm a beginner! lots of sun and lots of water and that's all you need to do! L |
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Posted: Jun/28/2007 4:15 AM PST
sunflowers, as long as you can keep up with watering. Really, any sun-loving perennials, but drying out is your enemy. Galliarda (gallardia??), dahlias, daisies (find the ones that bloom all season - I found some on another post but don't remember the names - my shastas give me a great first bloom then maybe a little spit of a bloom later in the season). Did I get the impression that you can only do containers? or just a much smaller plot than you are used to? You can amass a lot more plants in a smaller area than is traditionally recommended if you 'double dig' your bed, meaning, make the soil uncompacted by taking off the first foot of soil, then loosening up the next foot with a pitchfork, then putting the top layer back. This way the roots can go down more easily and get water and nutrients, rather than branching out to the side and you can get more plants cozy together - I learned this as 'french intensive' gardening for my vegetaable plants and I could group way more veggies in a small space than normal. |
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Posted: Jun/28/2007 9:55 AM PST
Wow, karslinky, and I thought I was just not planning well. Turns out my plants on top of another do make sense...leave it to the French! (BTW I'm married to a Parisian, and I don't mean TX)  That is how the gardens are planted in Paris, looks like chaos but everything somehow produces beautifully.
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