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TiffL1201 Salisbury, MA May 12, 2007

I recently bought a new house and need help planting!! I am new to the whole gardening thing but I want to plant something that will flower for a long time, bright colors and is pretty hardy. Any good suggestions?? Trust me - anything will help :)

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bigcityal Appleton, WI(Zone 5a) May 13, 2007

Hello - You have full sun? Anything you know you don't like to start with?

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TiffL1201 Salisbury, MA May 14, 2007

hi thanks for helping, there is nothing that i know i do not like but i have alot of sun in the yard.

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bigcityal Appleton, WI(Zone 5a) May 14, 2007

OK, long bloomers for sun. I'll start with daylillies,gaillardia,black eyed susan's,salvia,heliopsis - more as I think of them or other people add.

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momo125 Windsor, ON(Zone 6a) May 20, 2007

Annual flowers will give you a show all summer until frost. Many varieties. I love dianthus. It is available as a perennial or an annual (actually a biennial which lasts two years. Annuals will only live for one year.) dianthus are in the same family as carnations. Geraniums, allysum, ageratum, new guinea impatiens, marigold for a yellow splash, petunias, Million bell petunias(small flowers low growing and very proliferous) Many colours available. all take full sun.

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daiseycat Assonet, MA(Zone 6b) May 21, 2007

Scabiosa - not truly bright colored, but a soft pink and blue which will bloom spring to snow. Good luck - have fun.

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