Beginner Gardening: Help with landscaping!, 0 by shubbard

shubbard wrote:
I am in OK too. daylilies do great, and daffodils that I have. depends on do you want flowers? or more along shrubs? alot of poeple plant azaleas here. I didnt like them myslef- needed too much water, and didnt look that great when flowers were spent. If its alot of shade- inmy last house before we moved I had a ring of huge Hostas that wel under large oak tree. I had 3 different varities, which gave foliage some vairity, and they bloomed tall lavender spike, and white spikes. I loved my Hosta's, they did not need alot of fussing. and you could plant bulbs, like daylilies , tulips, around them. I think the idea of bumping th bed out to give it some curve would be great! and that will give you pockets to plants flowers inbetween shrubs and/or hosta's. For something very quick and easy for Now, you could put some annuals, some marigolds and begonias, grasses, make it look pretty for now, until you can see thru this summer how much full sun there will be, and how much shade. your local garden center will have plenty right now, and I would pick part sun/part shade plants till you can observe the area a little longer, and not alot of money invested .