My top 5 low maintenance plants to grow in a sunny spot
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You know that some colour and life in your garden is going to elevate your mood, life and power but you’re worried that taking care of your plants will become another thing on your to-do list.
For starters let me assure you that done right, the way I’m gonna teach you when you join the Seed membership, gardening will never feel like a chore. In fact your brain and body will begin to crave it and its stress-reducing and power-increasing magic.
But so that you can start to experience this magic yourself with only a small amount of time investment from you, I’m sharing 5 plants that will have maximum impact in your sunny garden border.
Alliums
If you’re short on time always opt for bulbs. They take a little time and effort to plant initially, but then they just pop up every year, doing their thing and looking sexy with zero input from you.
Plant in clumps of odd numbers or in drifts through the border for maximum impact as I wrote about in my garden adventure to Hampton Court Tulip Festival here ⬇️.
Hampton Court Tulip Festival
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If you notice over time that your alliums produce leaves but no flowers they may have got too congested as the bulbs will multiply over time. The clumps will need digging up, dividing and some of the bulbs planted elsewhere in the garden. This effort is only likely to be required every 3 years.
Bearded Iris
My second must grow plant for a sunny border are bearded iris that grow from rhizomes. These are similar to bulbs but they need to feel some sun on them in order to flower well. So plant them in the border with the top side of the rhizome poking out of the soil and they will happily multiply through your borders giving you these gorgeous frilly flowers throughout May.
Once they’ve finished flowering snip off the crispy brown flowers and leave the foliage to die back before clearing over winter or in early Spring.
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