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I just bought a house and the landscaping is awful! I want to uproot adjectives of the flowers/plants that are in the flower beds contained by my yard b/c they look really bad and weren't taken caution of. I have no idea how to do this and am seekin some guidance on how I should make everything look better.
Answers: We bought a new house final year so I know how you feel. First see if there's anything that can be relocated. Sometimes a plant that looks terrible where on earth it is would look fine somewhere else. I know you want to make the place your own, but the plants are innocent victims. If they seem close to they might be used elsewhere, use them.
One issue for me would be the quality of the soil. If the former owner drenched his beds next to chemicals then you could have a situation on your hand. If what is there is growing well, assume you're sheltered until you find out otherwise.
This late in the season I'd recommend going to the garden center and buying some cheap and cheerful annuals, similar to marigolds, geraniums, etc. Then you will have time to plan what you'll put in this spill out - bulbs, grasses, perennials, shrubs, and so on.
So take out whatever you can use and plant it somewhere else, and consequently Roundup the remaining weeds. Once everything is dead (a few days) verbs it up and start over. Mulch around the new plants with mulch that doesn't contain fertilizer (stinky stuff!) and hose down well.
Take it slow! It's too hot to start a big project now, and it's the wrong time to set out unknown plants except bedding annuals.
First, get in the bed and do some judicious weeding. Pull the things you know are weeds, deadhead the flowers, put some fresh mulch down. If your flowerbeds look unpromising because of lack of care, the solution is to cure them, not snuff out them.
Figure out what's annuals and what's perennials. If they are annuals, they'll be over soon. You can pull them up or leave them.
If they are perennials, want if you hate them entirely or just don't approaching them where they are. If you hate them entirely, you can step ahead & spot-treat with Roundup. If you want to move them, maintain them where on earth they are until fall.
For now, move about to a garden center and get enough flowering annuals to pack in where you've taken out things. They will require more caution than annuals planted earlier in the year.
Fall is for planting - that's the time to move what you want to salvage, and replace the rest.