Looking for easy pretty flowers for 1st time gardener

Im looking for some colourful easy low maintenance flowers just to ease me into gardening . I have a large back garden with a smaller garden to the front . Any ideas would be more than welcome .

 

Most will ask you to see the space your talking about. Is it shaded, is it sunny? My suggestion is to get some garden mags to review, go visit local garden places and read about the plant. Knowledge is important to have with gardening gives you success and saves money.

 

Heres the space ive got to work with gets all day sun and very rarely has shade other than the furthest corner

 

Welcome to the forum, Stevo19901. You will be able to grow lots of good stuff in your nice, sunny garden. most quick-growing annual flowers need lots of sunshine. However, most will need a little maintenance.

What is your budget? If you have to watch the pennies it's best to buy seeds from Ebay, Aldi, Lidl etc. I would recommend nasturtiums, poppies and calendula as being cheap, simple and easy to sow and raise seeds.

If you are able to spend more it probably would be best to buy bedding plants from a decent nursery - you will get almost instant results and if you choose well the colour will last through the summer. Good choices might be dwarf dahlias, tagetes, African marigolds, petunias, pelargoniums and many more. These will all die come the winter, though.

With an eye to the future you could choose some perennials such as geraniums, sedums, campanulas and many more. They will not be nearly so quick to fill space and each will flower for a few weeks of the year but they will grow more beautiful with each year that passes. You could also choose some flowering shrubs and climbers which are very rewarding but not instant.

The main maintenance you have to look at is preparing the soil for sowing or planting, doing the sowing and planting, labelling, weeding, watering and feeding. You can get away with skimping most things but probably not watering if we have a dry summer. If you want a nice, easy garden next year it's best to try to keep on top of weeds, also.

 

Steve as Redstar said , go and visit you local garden centres and nurseries and look at the bedding plants that are on show, Marigolds ,petunias , geraniums etc . You only need plant your bedding after the middle of May to miss any frost . When you plant them out make sure you space them correctly ( ask on here when you have the plants ) You will have a large area of soil with rather small looking plants dotted around - they will grow so give them room.
B and Q will have some good offers on soon.

 

Nasturtiums
Pot Marigolds
Wildflower packs
Most bulbs are pretty easy going

 

I was thinking about persian shield and lilys to start as well a some dahlias and some baby blues . If anyone could reccomend a really nice shrub that flowers or something like that . It would be much appreciated at the minute bidget is small so im looking for seeds which will produce nice plants buy are cheap

 

Hello and welcome

One packet of nasturtium seeds will fill a lot of space. You could put some in that raised bit and let them spill over (they trail quite well).

Or, petunias. Often the supermarkets sell them cheap at this time of year, and they will thrive in full sun and quickly run riot.

 

Welcome

I'm not experienced enough myself to suggest flowers for a beginner's garden. I inherited an established garden, thankfully Be careful of lillies though if you have a cat.

 

Hallo Steve,
you'll be so glad you joined Gardeners Corner. It will inspire you and I'm sure you will like what flowers for you this Summer. Water, water, water if it gets really hot - lovely to do of an evening with a in the other hand!!
Liliies -emmmmm - ever heard of Lily Beetles ?
to GC,
Jenny namaste

 

Thankyou so much guys . Alot of great ideas i really love purple flowers is there anything that climbs or grows fast and wide to cover that horrible brick

 

Which area will you be planting in?

Fuchsia are good doers. Go for one of the F.magellanica cultivars such as Ricartoni, David or Hawkshead and they'll be fully hardy.
Campanula can be good, but sometimes they can be a little invasive.
Avoid Aquilega (they self seed everywhere), Vinca, Hymenocallis and other invasive/rampant self seeders.

 

If you could put a trellis up on the 'horrible brick' (your words, not mine lol) you could put a climbing rose on there eg http://www.diy.com/nav/garden/grow-your-own/plants/garden_plants/-specificproducttype-climbing_rose/Pauls-Scarlet-Climbing-Roses-13008844 and/or some clematis

Obviously you might find things cheaper in a local garden centre - and don't turn your nose up at plants sold at discount shops and supermarkets, Wilkos, Aldi even Poundland etc, you can get some good plants at reasonable prices there.

 

And there will be boot fairs soon. Lots of cheap plants there,
Jenny

 

Aserina scandens......................




Not hardy, but it grows like boogery!