Do you love the look of flowers and plants but you simply don’t have enough time to water plants on a daily basis? Or maybe you’ve tried your hand at gardening, but realized your green thumb skills are quite up to par?
Here are 5 of the easiest plants to care for in a garden or your home.
1Geraniums
These drought-tolerant, brilliantly colourful flowers are so easy to care for. The scented varieties are particularly good in the hot sunshine which is especially good news if you have planted them in pots or hanging baskets. There are many varieties available too for your bright and colorful garden!
2Lavendar
Fragrant lavender grows in loose sprays of spikes tipped with little clusters of flowers that come in blue, purple, and occasionally white and pink and are good in informal gardens. Most varieties attract bees and butterflies. They tolerate poor soil and neglect, even preferring sand and gravel to organic mulch.
3Artemisia
Reliable artemisia is valued for its beautiful, slender gray to silver leaves on tall, arching stems or in low mounds, which range from 1 to 5 feet high and wide. These plants are tough and trouble-free.
4Agave
Agaves store water in their thick foliage and send their roots deep below the soil surface to collect the water available. The Leaf has sharp edges. Landscapers often use agaves due to the unusual shape of their foliage and low care, drought tolerant nature.
5Succulents
Whether you want useful ones like Aloe or you just want some beautiful ones to look at, these are great for all those times you forget to water the plants. Because of their resiliency, they have become some of the most popular house plants and often used for décor. Here’s some options.
Golden toothed aloe (pictured above)
Dark-green leaves with white or yellow prickles bake into hot colors under direct sunlight. But peek at the shaded surfaces underneath and you’ll find tender greenery. Grow a golden-toothed and you’ll be spoiled for plain aloe vera. Vibrant red-orange flowers shoot up on slender stems during summer, offering nectar your hummingbirds will find hard to resist.
Hens-and-chicks
This tough plant grows in clusters of rosette-shaped leaves. It seems to have limitless possibilities: Grow it in unusual shallow containers or in rocky, challenging spaces. It’s very forgiving, can go days without water, and then perks back up when you water it again.
Morning light echeveria
This cultivar is among the most user-friendly you’ll find, preferring a soil slightly richer in organic matter than most succulents, it flourishes under ultrabright indirect light. Gorgeous powdery leaves splay open like a water lily or lotus blossom.
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