Potted Flowers

What kind of flowers would you suggest to a beginner?! I just want to plant 3 pots of flowers, just to start. I want to add some color to the front of the house.

Someone told me impatients are easy to take care of.

Petunias are hardy BUT you have to pick off the dead ones to keep them blooming. They get really big and bushy.

Pansies are also pretty hardy and come in various colors. They're pretty good in taking temperature fluctuations.

Impatiens are gorgeous, also...

Marigolds are easy
Verbenas are pretty
Portulacas are colorful
Snapdragons...

If you want something to bush out and spread, Phlox have different colors of purple and just kind of crawl everywhere.

I say Pansies they get big and busy and spread out especially if you Miracle Grow them suckers!

Impatiens are pretty but they are one year only. So they will not grow back again next year.

Tulips are really pretty and I think are pretty easy.

Here is what I have so far.

I got these I THINK they are petunias. Or a version like them


This is a Dahlia (NOT for a pot of this size they get pretty big but I just loved the flower so when it gets to big for the pot I'll transplant it )


And of course you can't go wrong with ivy!

I don't know what the hell that yellow flower is Tate. Definitely not a Petunia.

From the pic I see, it looks like a Pansy without the black part.

Yeah I know...but it grows more like a petunia...I can't decide what it is I've never seen just plain yellow pansy's...I have no idea its probably a hybrid.

But it made me stop and go in Kmart when I drove past them! They are SO pretty!

I'm going to post pictures of what I picked out here in a few!

Osteospermum's and Dracaena Spikes

they can handle all day sun

Kala wrote:Osteospermum's and Dracaena Spikes

Osteo Sperms and Dracula Spikes?



Very pretty though!

Jeannette...I read that the exact same way you wrote it out

We have such bad minds.

Obviously...I had to scroll back up to see what Kala originally wrote just to figure out what you were talking about then I realized I had read what she wrote wrong

You guys turned my innocent post into dirtiness.

Not us!

you guys would never do that!

geraniums

Pretty!

here's a better one

I love the Geranium pot! And the colors are pretty too. All I ever find around here are the red ones. Ick.

I love the pinks, they are my favorites!

We finally had flowers coming up . . . and then it frosted over again.
I don't even try in Wisconsin.

I planted my garden last weekend!!! I eagerly check every day for sprouting things! I'm soooooo excited! I'm such a nerd!