The easiest plants to grow are mint, mind your own business and Spanish bluebells. I can't believe people pay good money for plants most of us dream of eliminating.
The easiest edible plant is surely rhubarb. Last year I read a Facebook post from my cousin pleading for her friends to come round and pull some. She lives in Yellowknife, Canada, where temperatures frequently go to minus 40 and lower.
Speaking as a lazy gardener, I would learn to recognise pretty seedlings and leave them in situ while only weeding out the ones you dislike.. https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/980578/my-weedy-garden This is what it looked like one year, but I've lost most of the aquilegia now.
Salvias, agastache, gaura, nepeta, hardy geraniums are all relaxed, drought-tolerant, easy-to-grow perennials here (on amended clay, mostly south-facing, hot summers, winters to -8c). Echinaceas also grow really well, but only if I buy them as 2L estsblished plants, little uns are more tricky to grow on and establish. For shrubs, viburnum, abelia, nandina domestica and chaenomeles require little or no attention.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I half buried some bits of leaf and stalk trimmings from my sedums last year, in a shady spot between other plants, and recently found they have started sprouting new shoots! If you don't succeed with cuttings, you can cut them up into segments with a knife or spade (depending on their size!) and replant the chunks where you want.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Or you can do them in pots like this... I think the key is putting them somewhere a bit shady and out of the way, where they'll get watered occasionally; and just sort of forgetting about them...
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Phlox, hardy geraniums, Day Lillies, Agapanthus, Crocosmia all grow in my clay soil, although I have nourished it with manure and compost over the years Most of these perennials will grow well, but, with clay I put grit in the planting hole on most plants in my boarder
B3 - I spotted a couple of plants growing as "weeds" in my borders.
On closer inspection I realised that the shape of the leaves looked familiar - the same as the ones growing on the aquilegia bare roots I got from Wilko.
So I've left them to see what they do. It's exciting when you spot something unexpected growing in the garden. It's particularly noticeable in mine because I'm starting with quite a blank slate.
last year I had several petunias that flowered for a very long time dotted around the garden. I certainly hadn't put them there!
Never heard of Day lillies being happy in wet soil. What do I find easy to grow often depends on the weather which you cant predict, 2 years ago I had the most incredible cosmos I sowed from seed, last year fantastic dahlias including some I grew from free seed in my other garden mag, never grown them from seed before.My sweet peas last year, were the best I have ever grown. Seeds came from the 2 places I always use. I know sweet peas hate hot and dry, it was certainly that last year! I read a lot of experts saying last year was a bad year for dahlias, not in my garden it wasnt! Roses do well in my inproved clay soil.Oh, yes mr Vine Eye, we have a lot of snapdragons that have seeded themselves in our front garden, in the shingle, intermixing and producing some lovelly colours, I have kept seed and sprinkled it elsewhere, have yet to see one. I also have a little white shingle Japanese area in the back which also has the snapdragons.
I put a few Crocosmia in last year which I moved from my front garden. I agree they do well, cos this year they seem to have spread to about 4 times the space. My only worry with this is that I'll struggle to keep them in check. Is their spreading likely through self seeding rather than corm/bulb division? if so will removal of the seed heads after flowering help?
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The easiest edible plant is surely rhubarb. Last year I read a Facebook post from my cousin pleading for her friends to come round and pull some. She lives in Yellowknife, Canada, where temperatures frequently go to minus 40 and lower.
https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/980578/my-weedy-garden
This is what it looked like one year, but I've lost most of the aquilegia now.
Most of these perennials will grow well, but, with clay I put grit in the planting hole on most plants in my boarder
On closer inspection I realised that the shape of the leaves looked familiar - the same as the ones growing on the aquilegia bare roots I got from Wilko.
So I've left them to see what they do. It's exciting when you spot something unexpected growing in the garden. It's particularly noticeable in mine because I'm starting with quite a blank slate.
last year I had several petunias that flowered for a very long time dotted around the garden. I certainly hadn't put them there!