For most of us with busy schedules – and without green thumbs – maintaining a beautiful garden landscape is a complicated and time-consuming task. However, tending a garden can be a bit intimidating and daunting, especially for a beginner! If you’re just taking your first steps in gardening, start with uncomplicated flowers and plant species that can handle tough conditions. Below we have put together 13 easy-care garden plants that are well suited for this. Take a look and get to work. We wish you a lot of fun and good luck!
According to Voltaire, “We all have to cultivate our own garden.”
Good looking plants that thrive with relatively little maintenance
13 low-maintenance garden plants for beginners
feather reed grass
You’ll need to prune it back to about 12 inches in winter. But aside from this once-a-year chore, grooming this gauzy, auburn beauty is like being a bald man’s barber. There really isn’t much to do.
Low-maintenance garden plants are an easy solution for your front or backyard
hostas or sweetheart lilies
This shade-tolerant plant comes in dozens of varieties. Some of these have really pretty blooms in summer, but hostas are best known for their large, lush leaves that provide nice cover.
You can create a green area in no time at all
Russian sage
Russian sage is a fragrant plant that boasts purple flowers from spring through fall. He prefers dry conditions.
And this is how you can introduce color into your garden
Hibiscus moscheutos or rose mallow
Also known as Hardy Hibiscus, this hardy shrub produces large white, pink, red and yellow flowers, making it a pretty plant that also makes an excellent privacy hedge.
Easy-care garden plants: the beautiful blossom of the rose mallow
lily cluster
A simple, leafy, and sturdy plant, lily cluster is popular with gardeners who want a green ground cover but not a lawn.
Colorful elegance for your garden
Blue Elf Aloe
Aloe Vera has many different types. True to its name, this strain has pretty green-grey leaves. It also tends to spread – a good trait when you want to cover a large area.
The easy-care aloe vera varieties are always a compliment for outdoors
Coastal Rosemary
This garden plant is not to be confused with the rosemary herb. Coastal rosemary is a drought and salt tolerant plant that is often used to stabilize slopes. She’s also a lovely addition to rock gardens that beg for color.
A garden shrub with practical use
Wave Petunias
This plant requires little care. All you have to do is fertilize them a little, water them regularly and enjoy their colors all summer long. Even if you don’t have a green thumb, your wavy petunias will survive and thrive!
Petunias create a colorful “sea” in the garden
yarrow
This flowering plant needs full sun and poor soil. You don’t even need to fertilize to get those beautiful flower heads.
So naturally these flowers thrive outdoors
Busy Lizzie
You don’t need a green thumb to make hard-working Lizzies bloom. They come in almost every color and if you have a light spot in the garden they can bloom all year round!
Hard-working Lizzies radiate tenderness and natural beauty
cowslip
Forming thick, lush and fragrant bushes, primroses are simply stunningly beautiful. They bloom primarily in the spring months and do well in full sun or in slightly shaded locations.
Garden splendor in summer
marigold
Another colorful flower that blooms in all sorts of cheerful shades of yellow and orange. Make sure you plant her in a pot with good drainage, cut back the flowers as needed and you’ll be enjoying this plant all season long.
Eye-catcher in orange
miracle flower
This trumpet-shaped annual plant does best in full sun, but will also tolerate some shade. They bloom quickly and thrive in almost any soil type. And the best part? They ensure that your garden smells nice all summer long!
Enjoy the scent of these beautiful garden flowers!
Which easy-care plants are suitable as ground cover?
As an alternative to grass, you can use a perennial such as pennywort or Irish moss. You can even try some types of herbs as ground cover. Thyme and mint, for example, propagate well and don’t need much maintenance.
Do you know the main rules for creating a herb garden?
