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    Forum: Beginner FlowersReplies: 5, Views: 116
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    TiffL1201
    Salisbury, MA

    May 12, 2007 9:51 PM

    Post #3490785

    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 :)
    bigcityal
    Menasha, WI (Zone 5a)

    May 13, 2007 3:24 AM

    Post #3491790

    Hello - You have full sun? Anything you know you don't like to start with?
    TiffL1201
    Salisbury, MA

    May 14, 2007 1:35 PM

    Post #3495804

    hi thanks for helping, there is nothing that i know i do not like but i have alot of sun in the yard.
    bigcityal
    Menasha, WI (Zone 5a)

    May 14, 2007 10:18 PM

    Post #3497307

    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.
    momo125
    Windsor, ON (Zone 6a)

    May 20, 2007 3:16 PM

    Post #3516681

    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.
    daiseycat
    Assonet, MA (Zone 6b)

    May 21, 2007 7:43 AM

    Post #3518989

    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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