If your thumb is so brown that you can’t even grow weeds but you would love to have a flower garden, here are five can’t fail perennials created with you in mind. These five flowers will thrive and return year after year with minimal care. No green thumb required.
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Hostas provide large leafed, layered shades of green in a summer flower garden and will produce a long spike of small flowers in mid-summer. Hostas come in several leaf colors: dark green, bluish-green, light green and variegated, and will make any shady garden location shine. Hostas will grow in poor soil, are drought tolerant and will continue to thrive and multiply even if they are not watered and fed.
Astilbe is another flowering perennial that loves shade. Astilbe produce fern-like chartreuse colored leaves and large plumes of purplish flowers. Undemanding astilbe will grow in poor clay soil without soil amendments and will even tolerate soggy soil conditions when they are over-watered or planted in a soggy location.
These lovely yellow daisies with a dark purplish-brown center can be grown by anyone, plant them and forget about them. Can’t fail Black-Eyed Susans will thrive under any average summer conditions, returning year after year to provide colorful beauty and attract butterflies.
Daylilies look delicate, but they are far from it, they will adapt to most any soil and weather condition. Daylilies grow tall and regal on grass-like foliage that produces large flowers that open in the early morning and wither at dusk. Daylilies come in a rainbow of bloom colors and make excellent cut flowers.
Coneflowers are native to many drought-prone areas across the United States which makes them a hardy choice for a gardener lacking a green thumb. Coneflowers are drought tolerant and love the sunshine, producing summer long flower color that will attract a wide variety of wildlife, with the coneflower seed heads being a favorite food for birds in late summer.
Hostas, astilbe, black-eyed susan, daylily and coneflowers are hardy perennials that rarely have pests or disease problems. All five perennials adapt well to their surroundings and are forgiving when over-watered, under-watered or otherwise mistreated. These are five flowers that can be planted and forgotten about by gardeners lacking a green thumb. These perennials will keep coming back year after in year in all their blooming glory to provide color to a flower garden and attract birds and butterflies.
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