I want a beautiful flower garden, but I am NOT a good gardener. I need an easy, “lazy girl” flower garden, and I’ve found the secret! These tips will help you grow a flower garden that requires no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading (aka no work). The best part? All of the flowers I recommend are perennials, so they come back every year and you can share the babies with friends and family (or they can share with you) making this a FREE FLOWER GARDEN too!
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May I also recommend that folks choose perennials, shrubs, and trees that are NATIVE to their state/area.
Natives are ADAPTED to particular areas and are, therefore, super easy to grow.
Just google: [your state] + native plants to see lists of plants native to your area.
Excellent, reputable online nurseries, if needed, are "The Pollen Nation" and "Prairie Moon Nursery."
Every one of the plants you said you can't kill, i have managed to kill. The flowers you hate, are some of my favorites. I hate no-weed fabric. Weeds may not come up under it, but weeds will make their way growing on top of it. And sooner or later someone will want to remove that fabric and it is very difficult to remove. Use cardboard instead and mulch heavily.
$25?? Where are you finding this arborist company. The ones I called said it would be $400!!
Lazy girl use pool chemicals green to blue. Works wonders
Try a sponge filter. It will help!! You are so funny!! I was horrified 😮when you said chlorine 😂
Somehow I can never grow lavender. They are difficult to grow in my area.
I LOVE your pond. Please don’t get rid of it. Spend some time researching how to tend it.
She tells you to get desired plants from
Friends then goes on destructive rant with non desired ones. Why not promote free cycling or plant swamping those too?
Loved your video! A quick question….. should I cut back my perennials every year, or just leave them alone? Thanks
Stop with the chlorine! You want to get a balanced ecosystem going in your pond. There are algaecides for killing the green goo, but adding PLANTS to your pond will help a lot, because they will take up the fertilizer that's feeding the algae. You can put a big pot of lotus or hardy water lily into the middle of the pond, and you can plant "marginals" around the edge… there are a lot of plants that love to have their roots submerged, some you need to keep the crown above water. Go to a nursery with a good water garden section or google for lists and lists of plants. You'll have to suck it up and keep cleaning the filter, unless you switch to a naturally balanced system like aquascape (and even then you'll have to skim out leaves). I've been watching Garden Answer on you tube, and they put in a wonderful pond that is gradually getting into a natural balance. I hope you've found some info by now, but I wanted to start you along the right direction. Ponds are wonderful for wildlife in your yard! If you don't have good water movement, you'll have to add mosquito dunks as a natural control.
Thanks for the first giggle of the day!
I love lazy girl videos.
No water? Not in CA. Dead on 2nd day.
Thank you! I was wondering what kind of flower gardens I could do that requires little to no work!
Every image of a real flower garden in this video was stolen from someone else. With that double layer landscape fabric, I can promise you that you aren’t going to have a garden that looks like any of those images, either. None of those perennials you planted ten minutes before this video will ever fully mature because they can’t grow through that – nor can any nutrients from your mulch ever penetrate the soil to nourish them. Sorry but you really don’t know what you are doing with this one – maybe stick to cleaning videos. lol
No way….. perennials need to be split every few years, and are terribly invasive
Love you and your crazy antics, you make me smile!
I have a Koi pond that is hand dug and made with love by my granddaughter and me. We have a natural ecosystem with fish, frogs and plants. Everything you have said about your two inherited garden ponds clearly shows that you are not going to be able to manage what could be a beautiful aquatic outdoor life in your own backyard. It’s a gift, you must be a good steward of something, such as this. Please fill them with dirt and plant some ornamental bushes or flowers. Chlorine tablets are for swimming pools, not garden ponds.
😂maybe you could rent a backhoe to dig out the Lilly of the valley! I’m pretty sure kicking it won’t work but it sure eases your frustration! 😂
Thank love 😊flowers
thank you for all your wonderful tips.. thank you for being so humorous! one question; whatweed fabric was that shown in this video? certain brand?
Pond needs more shade/ faster flow and some plants. Drain it, clean the bottom (they all fill in eventually), let it dry out and start with fresh water. They do seem to require a lot of monitoring once they are going well.
Plastic weed barrier is over rated. Eventually seeds blow onto the mulch and nearby plants with runners send side shoots out. It will break down and pollute your soil eventually. I've been seeding zinnias. In my opinion they are the only annual cut flower that is an all around winner. They have filled out so many bouquets at my house.
Great video. I'm from UK so Canada weather similar so can get all these plants! Great tips
WOW, thanks for this. I suck at flowers etc. Trying to learn and this will totally help me. 🙂
Hello lovely Cas! @Clutterbug
Lazy girl hack?
Stop with the bleach (chlorine). It's terrible for the liner.
It is said that adding copper pipe to the water will keep algae at bay. You'll need lots at the start and finish.
Start asking for neighbors' copper pipes now. Big ones will allow the fish to hide. 😉
If you get fish, put supported hardware cloth (painted black), over the bodies of water. Raccoons would LOVE to eat your fish – hence the hardware cloth (remember, they have hands, and are very clever). Let the birds drink from the gurgling stream bit.
Fish will eat the mosquito larvae (noticed your zapper on the porch).
You don't need 40,006 fish. Just one fish per 15 gallons, and you'll be fine. They will grow, then the kids can sell them ($$), and you can start small again. Smaller eats less, but it also creates less waste, and they grow fast.
Put a mesh prefilter over your intake, have the kids swipe it regularly. There ought to be a hack somewhere for what people with pools do (someone please that here, please 😉 ).
Don't put a biodegradable mulch over weed barrier. It defeats the purpose by giving weeds a place to grow. I love a good biodegradable mulch, over cardboard, or just thick enough to smother weeds.
It's not lazy. It's just smart and efficient.
Would love s lazy girl series of home and garden! ❤❤
Lazygirl is my vibe 100%!
I love your channel.
You made really nice plant choices. The quite a few of your flowers are native to the States which is great.
The plants you said you hated or didn't want in your garden is a good thing as they are all non native anyway.
Lily of the valley is wicked, it is so invasive. The only way to get rid of it is to dig deep and get the rhizomes up, they're like tubers. It maybe worth doing that one day. Then you won't get frustrated with it all. You were funny getting exasperated with them. I feel ya.
Native gardening is low maintenance and is good for the environment. The flowers just grow like they do in the wild and there is not much to do other than divide them if they are expanding out too far. We don't have to feed them or do stuff to them, don't have to dead head if you don't want, and don't have to water them once they're established. They attract important pollinators and birds. I love native plants and have been growing them and learning about them over the past couple of years. They're amazing.
I encourage everyone to plant Native. ❤
well somehow i have managed to grow and also kill all of these "unkillable" flowers. 😮
What's wrong with a day lily
I Totally agree about the Lily of the Valley!!! Grrrrr!!!
Plant water plants in the pond!!! It will keep it clean and healthy!
Great ideas, I have all of the ones you mentioned and they do grow and flower really well – I do have insect pressure on my cone flowers though so I don’t totally agree that they are care free and also – love, love, love daylilies🤪 yes they do bloom longer and better if you deadhead – but that is actually a very meditative relaxing chore, so have to disagree on that one😊 thanks for this informative and entertaining video – I’m a new subscriber!
I think Hosta is beautiful. I live here in Santa Barbara California and my local nursery does not carry that plant at all. It could have something to do with zoning but I'm not sure. Enjoy your lovely garden! I took note so if I can get these plants in my area I will give them a try. Thank you for sharing your insight with us.
I disagree on one thing. Landscape fabric. No I don't use it.
We have a water feature in our backyard. It got a crack in it. Instead of taking it out completely we removed just the top portion and turned it into a garden bed. We made sure there was drainage. We got one of those flower bowls from Costco and some marigolds. We left the plants in the container and put rock underneath and soil on top. My husband fertilizes and waters it and for 3 seasons now the flowers populate each spring. It provides a pop of color and I don't have to clean out mosquitoes and rain water anymore.
You are funny.. I love it. Thank you for sharing these great lazy doers ideas. I look forward to putting all of these in my yard.
I've just been researching ponds, and the green algae is a universal problem. So i've found out about pondless waterfalls instead! Essentially, all you would have to do is fill in most of your pond but leave some beautiful rocks, stones and gravel on the top for the water to trickle through. Moving water doesn't have the algae problems – apparently! 🙂
The beginning of the video is very nice and interesting, but I don't like it when someone talks about flowers in a rude way. I never use "hate" for a flower and if I don't like some flower to spread I would never be so aggressive when pulling out. Just give them to someone who don't mind the shady parts of their garden to be taken over by it. To me it really doesn't matter for how long a plant will be in bloom as long as I like it – there are some other criteria as well. Some people do gardening just because they want a certain status. But I enjoy and love flowers and I want to have them all.