Easy Care Plants For Landscaping Choosing Low Maintenance Plants For Gardens

14 Low-Maintenance Plants for Easy Landscaping

• Shrub or Small Tree: Smoke Tree. Smoke trees (Continus coggygria) can be grown as large, deciduous shrubs or small trees. ...
• Flowering Perennial: Peony. ...
• Tree: Hawthorn. ...
• Groundcover: Liriope. ...
• Ornamental Grass: Feather Reed Grass. ...
• Ornamental Grass: Ribbon Grass. ...
• Ornamental Grass: Fescue. ...
• Tree: Thornless Honeylocust.

1. What are the best low maintenance outdoor plants?
2. What are the easiest outdoor plants to take care of?
3. What is the most low maintenance plant?
4. What are the best low maintenance shrubs?
5. What plants look good all year round?
6. What are the best plants for front of house?
7. Which plant is good for outdoor?
8. What can I plant in a low-maintenance garden?
9. What is the hardest plant to kill?
10. What is the easiest houseplant to grow?
11. What is the easiest plant to keep alive?
12. What are the easiest shrubs to grow?
13. What kind of shrubs stay small?
14. What are good shrubs for full sun?
15. What plant stays green all year?
16. How do I make a colorful garden all year round?
17. Does anything bloom all year?
18. What can I plant around my house foundation?
19. How can I make my front garden look nice?

What are the best low maintenance outdoor plants?

Top 10 Low Maintenance Perennials

1. Shasta Daisy. Shasta Daisies are easy to grow. ...
2. Coneflower. Coneflower is a mid-summer bloomer that's a great cut flower. ...
3. Hardy Hibiscus. Hardy hibiscus loves full sun and attracts both hummingbirds and butterflies. ...
4. Perennial Geranium. Perennial Geranium is a great border plant. ...
5. Hosta. ...
6. Ferns. ...
7. Catmint. ...
8. Coreopsis.

What are the easiest outdoor plants to take care of?

13 Can't-Kill Flowers for Beginners

• Zinnia. Look for zinnias in almost every color except blue; they're also available in a variety of heights. ...
• Marigolds. Cheerful marigolds are easy to grow in sunny spots, brightening your garden with shades of yellow, red and gold as they bloom all summer long. ...
• Pansies. ...
• Impatiens. ...
• Begonias. ...
• Snapdragons. ...
• Daffodils. ...
• Cosmos.

What is the most low maintenance plant?

16 Low-Maintenance Indoor Houseplants Most Likely to Survive All Year Long

• Jade Plant. ...
• Christmas Cactus. ...
• Philodendrons. ...
• Succulents. ...
• Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree. ...
• Aloe. ...
• Cacti and Desert Plants. ...
• Wax Plant.

What are the best low maintenance shrubs?

17 Low-Maintenance Plants and Dwarf Shrubs

• Butterfly Bush. Prune these plants by late August, so plants have time to harden off before freezes arrive. ...
• Fringe Tree. ...
• Coral Bells. ...
• Denver Daisy. ...
• Ninebark. ...
• Contoneaster. ...
• Purple Pixie. ...
• Agapanthus.

What plants look good all year round?

Plants that look good all year

• Heart-shaped, purple leaves of the redbud.
• Masses of fiery-coloured 'Red Sentinel' crab apples.
• White, star-shaped flowers of snowy mespilus.
• Small, white flowers and blood red berries of 'Dart's Red Robin' viburnum.
• White, bell-shaped flowers on a blueberry bush.
• White hydrangea blooms.

What are the best plants for front of house?

11 Best Plants for the Front of Your House

• Gardenia.
• Boxwood.
• Bottlebrush.
• Pittosporum Tenuifolium.
• Rhododendron.
• Japanese Pieris.
• Knockout Rose.
• Geranium.

Which plant is good for outdoor?

10 Best Outdoor Plants

• Phoebe. Phoebe the Canary Island date palm is a great all-rounder — she's just as happy indoors as she is outside. ...
• Mae the Chamaerops humilis (a.k.a the 'European fan palm') is an all-round people-pleaser — she's been our most popular plant at Patch since we launched in 2016. ...
• Fats. ...
• Ollie. ...
• Gia. ...
• Cory. ...
• Adrienn. ...
• Connie.

What can I plant in a low-maintenance garden?

Brilliant low-maintenance plants for beautiful gardens

• Topiary.
• Lavender.
• Hydrangeas.
• Asters and symphytricom.
• Ornamental grasses.
• Geums.
• Geraniums.
• Dahlias (because I don't dig them up for winter!)

What is the hardest plant to kill?

11 Hard-to-Kill Houseplants

• Aloe. Aloe (Aloe vera) is best known for its plump leaves that can provide a soothing gel for cuts and burns. ...
• Snake Plant. ...
• Philodendron. ...
• Spider Plant. ...
• Rabbit's Ear. ...
• Rubber Plant. ...
• Golden Pothos. ...
• Barrel Cactus.

What is the easiest houseplant to grow?

9 of the easiest houseplants that anyone can grow

• monstera. Adaptable to almost all light conditions, and somewhat drought tolerant, the Monstera is a low maintenance, stunning tropical plant. ...
• sansevieria. ...
• zz plant. ...
• spider plant. ...
• philodendron heartleaf. ...
• hedgehog aloe.

What is the easiest plant to keep alive?

21 Forgiving Houseplants

• Snake Plant. The snake plant, also known as mother-in-law's tongue or ribbon plant (Sansevieria), is a succulent with thick, waxy leaves. ...
• Bromeliads. ...
• ZZ Plant. ...
• Chinese Money Plant. ...
• Chinese Evergreen. ...
• Jade. ...
• Pothos. ...
• Rabbit's Ear.

What are the easiest shrubs to grow?

• Double Play^® Gold Spiraea. Double Play^® Gold spirea shines in the landscape from spring to fall with little to no pruning needed. ...
• Gatsby Gal^® Hydrangea. Native oakleaf hydrangeas like Gatsby Gal^® are easy to grow in sun or part shade. ...
• Oso Easy^® Cherry Pie Rosa. ...
• North Pole^® Arborvitae. ...
• Spilled Wine^® Weigela.

What kind of shrubs stay small?

10 Great Low-Maintenance, Dwarf Shrubs

• Franklin's Gem Boxwood. Boxwood are the king of evergreens! ...
• Magic Carpet Spirea. Magic Carpet Spirea is an excellent choice for adding curb appeal to your home. ...
• Dwarf Norway Spruce. ...
• My Monet Weigela. ...
• Emerald 'N Gold Euonymus. ...
• Fox Red Curly Sedge. ...
• Dwarf Japanese Garden Juniper. ...
• Cityline® Paris Hydrangea.

What are good shrubs for full sun?

18 Flowering Shrubs for Sun

• Wine and Roses Weigela (Weigela florida 'Alexandra') ...
• Mock Orange (Philadelphus coronarius) ...
• Midnight Wine Weigela. ...
• Japanese Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles 'Pink Lady') ...
• American Cranberrybush (Viburnum opulus var. ...
• Sunshine Blue Bluebeard (Caryopteris incana 'Jason')

What plant stays green all year?

Evergreen shrubs bring life to dreary winter landscapes with their lush greenery. Like coniferous evergreens, evergreen shrubs create an everlasting framework for seasonal garden plantings. Some spring-flowering evergreen shrubs also produce attractive colorful berries in the fall, broadening their year-round appeal.

How do I make a colorful garden all year round?

To get a garden that really looks good all year round, a little planning is needed. The key steps are to take control of the garden, put in structure, and then fill it up with flowering plants. There will always be a high and a low season in the garden but it should never look completely devoid of colour.

Does anything bloom all year?

Some of the most enduring types include Bidens ferulifolia "Goldmarie," Coreopsis verticillata "Moonbeam," Erysimum "Bowles Mauve," Gaillardia grandiflora "Goblin," Geranium "Rozanne," Meconopsis cambrica, Oenothera macrocarpa, Salvia chamaedryoides and Scabiosa columbaria "Butterfly Blue." Since roses are day-length ...

What can I plant around my house foundation?

Round-shaped plants

• Abelia Abelia 'Edward Goucher' ...
• Boxwood Buxus 'Green Velvet' ...
• Brownii yew Taxus x media 'Brownii' ...
• Dwarf blue spruce Picea pungens 'Globosa' ...
• Dwarf fothergilla Fothergilla gardenii. ...
• Dwarf Korean lilac Syringa meyeri 'Palibin' ...
• Smooth leaf hydrangea Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'

How can I make my front garden look nice?

Front garden ideas

1. Invite a picturesque path to add character. Image credit: Bridget Peirson. ...
2. Curate a corner of thoughtful planting. ...
3. Keep the lawn short and formal. ...
4. Lay a brick path, lined with pretty pots. ...
5. Plant tactical topiary for privacy. ...
6. Dress the windowsill. ...
7. Landscape a layout. ...
8. Create a balanced pot arrangement.