I'm so not a gardener

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but I would love to landscape the front to the new house with pretty flowers and bushes. They have lots of green waxy bushes there now but I would love to replace them with something pretty that flowers alot. It is on the front of the house which gets a good bit of sunlight every day. Any suggestions?
 
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How about some azaleas? They are my favorite landscaping shrub and do very well in our area. Many different varieties to choose from.
 
huntr1

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Azaleas are good, but they are not fully evergreen. Rhodos are good too, but they take a long time to fill in and look good.
Got a picture of what you have there now?
I am in the process of landscaping my house. Since we moved in 3 years ago, I have planted 10 fruit trees in the front yard, cut down 2 mature but dying trees in the front yard, planted 15 or so rhodos and about 20 azaleas in the back yard, 6 azaleas in the front side yard, 7 english boxwoods in front of one section of the house, and am in the process of creating a 62' long planting bed down 1 side of the driveway to plant another 30 english boxwoods in. Then I get to plant my 5 fruit bushes in the front side yard. When you are doing a lot of planting (i.e. my driveway planting bed), a tiller is your friend.
 
huntr1

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Gooseneck said:
How about some azaleas? They are my favorite landscaping shrub and do very well in our area. Many different varieties to choose from.
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Check the pennysaver. There is a place in Calvert that grows 500(!) different varieties of azaleas. Azalea Trace or something like that. Prices are about equal to Walmart/Lowes prices. Wentworth's is expensive, but the plants are MUCH nicer, and if you get the right staff member, they actually know what they are talking about.
 
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huntr1 said:
Azaleas are good, but they are not fully evergreen. Rhodos are good too, but they take a long time to fill in and look good.
Got a picture of what you have there now?
I am in the process of landscaping my house. Since we moved in 3 years ago, I have planted 10 fruit trees in the front yard, cut down 2 mature but dying trees in the front yard, planted 15 or so rhodos and about 20 azaleas in the back yard, 6 azaleas in the front side yard, 7 english boxwoods in front of one section of the house, and am in the process of creating a 62' long planting bed down 1 side of the driveway to plant another 30 english boxwoods in. Then I get to plant my 5 fruit bushes in the front side yard. When you are doing a lot of planting (i.e. my driveway planting bed), a tiller is your friend.
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Here is what the front looks like. I like azaleas but they only bloom for a short amount of time and I would like something colorful all during the summer season. I, also, love hydrangea and lilacs but don't know their temperment.
 

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jazz lady

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Azaleas are pretty, but only bloom for a short time. You either want to plant something that blooms for a long time or use progressive gardening where you plant things that bloom at different times so you always have something in flower. This is what I do. I also plant things just for their foliage, which can be just as pretty as blooms.

Full-sun planting can be tricky. You need to plant things that can take the heat and are drought-tolerant. One of my favorites are butterfly bushes (buddleia), which blooms all summer. But it can get HUGE (6' plus) so it may not work where you want it other than as an accent. Members of the daisy family (Purple coneflowers, Rudbeckia (Brown-Eyed Susan), Shasta daisies) work well in full-sun. Lavender is another good choice as it blooms with beautiful purple spikes. Liatris has nice foliage and pretty purple flower spikes that bloom from July to September.

For bushes, I like the Nandina family. Beautiful foliage, non-invasive, and pretty but small blooms during the summer. I also like Spirea, which doesn't get very big but blooms abundantly and loves sun.

One trick is to make a layout of your beds on paper before you start and then arrange the plants you'd like to use that way before you plant them in the ground. :yay:
 
nomoney

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where's the driveway? around back? You could do a nice walk way from the front door to the driveway and landscape from the house up to that....it would be gorgeous :yay:
 
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nomoney said:
where's the driveway? around back? You could do a nice walk way from the front door to the driveway and landscape from the house up to that....it would be gorgeous :yay:
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On the side of the house. You walk in from the driveway to the deck. They have a pier thing going on there. The side walk way is pier posts with rope connecting them and the walkway is wood planks. It is alright but I still need something to line it.
 
AC/DC

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I can see yours is working well for you..........

nomoney said:
where's the driveway? around back? You could do a nice walk way from the front door to the driveway and landscape from the house up to that....it would be gorgeous :yay:
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workin hard said:
I, also, love hydrangea and lilacs but don't know their temperment.
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Both are very hardy, and do very well in the climate of somd. Lilacs however, only bloom in the spring, hydrangea early summer. Might want to try butterfly bushes

Hardy perennials, Shasta daiseys, black-eyed susan, day lillies do well.
 
kwillia

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I picked up some really awesome pinkish-reddish bush thingys at the greenery. They are pinkish-reddish all year long and make yellow flowers in the spring. They like full sunlight and will only get about 3 ' at maturity. I'm gonna go dig around and see if I can find the name and a pic of them.
 
jazz lady

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Airgasm said:
Both are very hardy, and do very well in the climate of somd. Lilacs however, only bloom in the spring, hydrangea early summer. Might want to try butterfly bushes

Hardy perennials, Shasta daiseys, black-eyed susan, day lillies do well.
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Gee, THAT sounds familiar. :whistle:

:smooch:

I love my lilacs, but they bloom for only a short period of time. I planted two special ones last year that are supposed to bloom 4 times a year, but so far they're not doing as well as I had hoped. :ohwell:
 
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kwillia

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I can't find my bush...:ohwell: It is perfect because it is colorful all year long and it flowers in the spring and it maintains manageable shape and size at maturity. It is perfect for what she wants and I can't find it on the net...:banghead:
 
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kwillia said:
I can't find my bush...:ohwell: It is perfect because it is colorful all year long and it flowers in the spring and it maintains manageable shape and size at maturity. It is perfect for what she wants and I can't find it on the net...:banghead:
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:bawl:

Where did you get it from?
 
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