Beginner Gardening: Need advice on planting a hillside, 1 by glendalekid

glendalekid wrote:
NatureLover1950

Oh, the water is a good suggestion. I hadn't even thought of that. The hillside is already covered with grass, some St. Augustine and some is really ugly stuff that I don't know the name of. But there are a lot of bare patches, and I thought I would try to get the flowers started in those bare spots first. I'm hoping that eventually I'll get enough flowers started that it will be sort of naturalized. I've put about 300 daffodill bulbs out there.

There are several varieties of wildflowers that do come up there, so I don't want to clear the grass with chemicals or smothering large areas with plastic. I am putting in coneflowers and black-eyed Susans, too. A lot of the seeds I bought are supposed to be reseeding annuals -- so hopefully they will take care of reseeding themselves next year.

Every method I've thought of to actually clear out the grass is either very time-consuming or expensive, or both. That area is probably 3/4th of a acre.
There is a large patch of berry vines of some sort. Last year I had hoped to find out what they were when they bloomed in the spring. Then we had a late freeze at Easter which finished the blossoms. We've only been here two years this June, so I'm hoping again this year to see what the berry vines produce, if anything.

cathy4,

I'll let you know how this comes out. I'm going to put out a lot of seeds tomorrow as we are supposed to be getting some rain in the next several days.

Here's a photo of one of the wildflowers out there. I've tried several times to get an ID on it, but no one has yet suggested anything close. So I just call it "the little pink wildflower".

Karen