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TiffL1201
Salisbury, MA

May 12, 2007
05:51 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 12, 2007
11:24 PM

Post #3491790

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

May 14, 2007
09:35 AM

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
06:18 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
11:16 AM

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
03:43 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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