Single Garden, Mixed Water Needs?

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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You'd be better off if you could keep things with similar water requirements together--do you have another bed where you could move some of them?

agree, you should keep those that need more water in a separate area

I do have another bed to move them to. And the plan was to plant it this weekend anyway, so that works. Thank you!

and you might want to think of planting your hibiscus in a pot to move indoors in winter just in case you didn't know of the hardiness (unless you will treat it as an annual).

Unless it's hardy hibiscus. Those will die back in the fall but come back in the spring with great gusto. They are also water hogs. Tropical hibiscus will have to be taken inside in the winter to survive. I finally planted mine (hardy hibiscus) in pots on the deck and put huge saucers underneath the pots so I can keep them saturated. I can almost hear them slurping. They love it! I'm still a beginner too, irishandsquish, so I understand where you're coming from. Took a while to start learning the ropes. It does help to put plants with similar likes (shade or sun, food and water requirements) together. I learned the hard way and had to move a lot when I first got started a couple of years ago. Send us photos when your plants mature. It's going to look very nice!

It is a tropical hibiscus. I told my husband it should go in a pot, but he REALLY wants it in the garden in the front of the house and says he's okay with treating it as an annual.... but if we decide to move the the daylilies, it doesn't make sense to leave the hibiscus since it's a waterhog too...and there are only three waterhogs, and seven of the drier plants, so I think I may win that battle. :)

So do both with the hibiscus. Put it in a pot, then bury the pot in the garden. That way you can pull it up in the fall and take it inside and you might be able to keep it wetter than the surrounding plants.

Doug, the problem solver. :-) Great idea!

Tropical hibiscus are really gorgeous with their dark green, shiny, rich-looking foliage and huge, brilliant blooms. I have treated them as annuals, just content to enjoy their beauty through the spring, summer,and fall months. My biggest problem with trying to bring them inside in the late fall and winter was the number of insects, particularly ants, that love those blooms. I took great delight in watering until I could see them all abandoning ship (mean ol' me). But I was afraid they would invade my house! So I just let them die out and bought hardy ones that would come back every year. Here's one successful effort from a couple of years ago ...

yes, excellent idea Doug!
Judy i have a yellow hibiscus with red center as well! just thought i would share :) and yes ants are always crawling on the hibiscus lol