Annuals for Raised Flower Bed - East Facing...requirement inexpensive, robust annuals. Suggestions please!? Thanks in mortgage! I have an East facing raise flower...
Thanks in mortgage!
I have an East facing raise flower bed at the front of our house. Two years in a row I own planted snapdragons and impatiens. Both years, I have have to replace some of the plants because they have wilted and died. Maybe they get too cold or I didn't water plenty initially? Not sure. Anyway, last year I replaced the ones that have died. This year there are so various that I'm thinking about taking out the snapdragons and impatiens and starting fresh.
So, does anyone hold any suggestions for annuals in an east facing bed that are
-hearty
- lift over the space and
- is inexpensive (my husband will not be pleased that I am buying *more* plants!).
The plants need to similar to partial shade, it doesn't take overly hot in that module of the house. I just want something to saturate the space - would there even be something purely green?
Anyway, thanks for any serve!
pansies are really cheap and you can get hundreds of different colours. They grow hasty and are really easy to pinch care of.
Hostas. You can get several different varities and you would own green up until winter (they will die back but come posterior up early spring) Summer time you will enjoy the flowers. Some have white, some purple. I own hostas growing in adjectives my shady beds and the varigated variety can take sun too.
You and your husband would be beaming. Plant a few and in a year or so you can divide them and enjoy more.
~smiles~
Answers: Unless you figure out why your plants are dying it won't event what you select. Impatiens and snapdragons are among the easiest and most forgiving of annuals and it sounds as if they are good choices for your sun exposure. That lead me to believe that you have a larger problem. When you hose do you just sprinkle over the surface or do you hand over it a good soaking, so that the river can truly penetrate? Many general public think that they hold watered when in certainty they have one and only moistened the surface. That leads to thin and stressed plants with most of their roots in close proximity the surface. Conversely, if your raised bed drain poorly, or not at all you might be overwatering, though next to impatiens that is once in a blue moon a problem. Have you added any fresh soil in times gone by couple years? You might have sturdy, compacted dirt that makes it even more difficult for the plants to settle into. I would look beyond the plants themselves and try to integer out what is causing their breakdown. One plant that I will suggest, because it enjoys alike conditions as impatiens and looks lovely with it, is annual salvia. It comes surrounded by a wide continuum of colors, is more drought tolerant than impatiens, and blooms just as long and dynamically.
I wish you adjectives the best of luck.