Flower Garden Planting & Maintenance

Bre21 asked:


i live in Nevada. I have no clue whatsoever on how to take care of a lawn let alone plant flowers but i know i want to learn being this as our first house with a backyard.

Pretty decent size i’d estimate around 25×15. The grass is totally dead (if any at all) at the moment but the owners are planning on resodding it for us.

So any tips or websites on how to care for it and what types of flowers to choose for Nevada’s climate.?? Really want something low-maintenence.

Bad Billy asked:


There are a dozen planter boxes on a corner in my neighborhood that have nothing in them but dry dirt.
The planters belong to the city of Los Angeles, CA.
How can I get permission to plant flowers in them?
I could go on a what is called a “gorrilla gardening,” campaign, but watering these planters is problematic, and there is already a sprinkler system at the site, but it is locked.
Please advise.

alliphant asked:


This is the first time that I’ve ever had my own house to decorate, and I’m really excited to plant flowers/garden, etc. However, my backyard is really small. Any ideas of how I can have pretty flowers in my backyard but still have enough room to have people over for a barbecue?

Cynful63 asked:


We are putting flower beds in front of the house and there is one area (4ft.) wide that stays muddy-wet all the time. We would like to have a pretty flowering bush, shrub, or plant/flowers to put there. What grows good in wet, very wet soil? It is also full sun most of the day and very hot!

my1der_hawk asked:


I live in an apartment complex and don’t have the permission to plant flowers around my patio cuz they don’t want me to dig, but i still want to plant some, but not from the little ones your buy…i want it to be from seeds…any suggestions?!

funkymunkyninja asked:


I recently moved to southern Germany and I want to plant some flowers on my balcony porch thing. My only problem is that I don’t know what flowers I can grow in this climate at this time of year, nor can I find a website in English (since I don’t speak/read German enough to make any sense of it) that helps me out.

So, what can I grow where I live? I would prefer to plant flowers, but I can go for herbs and other things like that too.

Wendy B asked:


I would love to plant flowers and veggies in our yard, but they are so expensive. Is there a trick to getting them at a reasonable price. Do nurserys throw away plants that aren’t in good shape? Any ideas???

mozart_1526 asked:


My rose plant has a white (looks like mold almost) on it’s leaves and flowers. It is spreading around the plant. It was just on one section of leaves, now it’s on almost the whole plant. Flowers and all. Any suggestions on what it is and how to treat it?

GG asked:


My mom, sister, and I love to garden. And we’re planting a bunch of new flowers. I think it’d be cool to divide the flowers up by color. Have a patch of red, then orange, green, etc. I love the idea of a sharp contrast. They disagree. A nursery in our town does that and it looks really cool. What do you think?

austinmy<3 asked:


I have a 6×4 septic lid that is flush with the ground I am planning to plant flowers on top of. I plan on covering the lid with soil and planting herbaceous flowers on top, since nothing else is safe to plat near a septic. If this works, how thick should I make the soil and will the flowers be able to survive? I figure annuals may, but will it be enough for perennials?