What best flowers to grow on the east side of my house. I live in Michigan and I’m zone 5. The area?
is 70 x 32
I live in southeast Michigan and grow all sorts of flowers. Wave Petunias, Calibrocha, Marigolds, Zinnias, Geraniums, Cosmos, Coneflower, Shasta Daisy, Black-Eyed Susans, Impatients, Bleeding Hearts, Stella-Doro Lilly, Butterfly Bush.
Go to a local nursery, they usually don’t sell anything that will not grow in your area. All of the flowers have tags in the pots that tell you if the flowers grow best in shade, part sun or sun. I always go by those tags and have very good luck with my flowers.
I live in southeast Michigan and grow all sorts of flowers. Wave Petunias, Calibrocha, Marigolds, Zinnias, Geraniums, Cosmos, Coneflower, Shasta Daisy, Black-Eyed Susans, Impatients, Bleeding Hearts, Stella-Doro Lilly, Butterfly Bush.
Go to a local nursery, they usually don’t sell anything that will not grow in your area. All of the flowers have tags in the pots that tell you if the flowers grow best in shade, part sun or sun. I always go by those tags and have very good luck with my flowers.
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looks like there are some peeps from mich..
if it is in full sun your plants will go nicely… lily of the vally smells great and makes a great boarder.. then fill in with other lilys or marigolds. if you want to block some area plant sunflowers. or black eye susans.
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The brightest thing I can think of is Morning Glories. They bloom only in the morning. Put on a trellis, or 5′ fence for fabulous color, and loads of blooms. Day Lillies, Lupine, Coreopsis, Shasta Daisy, Parrot Tulips, Early Tulips. Chrystanthmums, Echinacia (Cone Flower), Heather, Lavender, Campanula(Bell Flower), Daffodil, Hiacynth, Grape Hiacynth, Phlox, Columbine, Peony. If I may add, put some bushes like Forsythia, Azaelia, Rhododendron, Bush Roses, in the back and on the sides of the flowers.
These are all hardy perrenials. They will bloom year after year getting larger, and multiplying. If you are worrying about the weeding let me help you make it maintenance free. Rototill your plot fertilize, rake it level, then cover with tar paper. It comes in 3′x50′ rolls. When your all done planting you could cover with bark or stone, or nothing. If you want to make the rows closer, around 2′ apart, cut your tar paper in half lengthwize. Plant your bulbs intermingled with your plants.
Measure the plants tallest in the back. Allow 4" between the next roll of tar paper. Set your plants in the 4" open spot, digging down about 3" below the tar paper with a hoe first. Ad as many rows as you like. You will have a maintenance free garden. Unless we have a terrible drought. You won’t have to water, after the first planting.
The sun heats the tar paper and the ground during the day, and holds the heat in at night. The rain water will run or blow off the sides of the paper, right into your plant roots, and keep moist under the paper.
You will have the most beautiful garden with continuous color spring to fall. Year after year.
Good Luck to you. Put a picture of your garden on here someday in a year or so.
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