Beginner Gardening: Single Garden, Mixed Water Needs?, 1 by irishandsquish

irishandsquish wrote:
I think I may have messed up... This last weekend we ripped up all the ivy the previous owners had let run wild in the little garden in the front of our house. We laid newspaper down to squash whatever ivy bits might still be hanging around, added compost and garden soil on top, and planted ourselves a pretty little garden. However, I think I should have researched before buying the plants, because we wound up with mealy sage, hibiscus, trailing verbenas and daylilies. The mealy sage wants to be dry. The verbenas want to be dry. The daylilies are going to want a lot more water....

Is that a problem? Should I be keeping plants with the same water needs together and separating the ones with differing water needs to other gardens?

In my head it could go either way. It could be the most horrible idea I've ever had because they all share the same soil and I'm a horrible plant-mom OR it's all okay because it's math and the plants that want more water will just take what the other's don't want or need.

We are brand new to gardening and, since we just bought our house and never had gardens before, so we're still building our garden tool set. Meaning, we don't have fancy sprinkler systems with timers or drip hoses or anything and anything not caught by the sprinkler when we water the lawn is currently being watered with the hose and fed by hand/watering cans - if that matters...

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