Just because you don’t have a lot of time to spend on making your garden look nice and looking after it, doesn’t mean that it can’t look stunning. There are certain types of plants and flowers that are extremely low maintenance and take next to no time at all to look after and care for. In this article we have listed a few of these plants and we hope that you will agree that you don’t have to spend all day, every day in order to make your garden look fantastic.

1. Coneflowers – These are great looking flowers and are extremely low maintenance. Coneflowers can be extremely pretty and come in a variety of different colours including Purple, white, orange, yellow pink and many others. These flowers traditionally bloom in the summer, but when we say summer, we mean all summer. Apart from the occasional deadheading, these flowers pretty much look after their selves all year round, so you can concentrate on more important issues.
2. Peony – This is another great looking type of flower that blooms in late spring/early summer time. As with the coneflowers they also come in a variety of colours including many different types of pink, white, different types of reds and even yellow. This is an old fashioned perennial and the plant actually does best if you simply just leave it alone, therefore it is extremely low maintenance. The plant does have some heavy double blossoms which may require staking from time to time if they don’t happen to have other plants to lean on. Most of the time though, these plants are able to stand tall all my their self and will pretty much grow perfectly without any attention whatsoever. Just remember to keep an eye on them from time to time.
3. Sea thrift – This is a beautiful looking plant and once again it blossoms in spring to early summer. The plant comes in a variety of colours including pink, rose, lilac, red or white. The foliage of the plant resembles a tuft off grass, while the flowers shoot up on stems and resemble small allium clusters. If these plants are deadheaded then you will normally get a repeat bloom. These plants only require a little bit of work from time to time such as cutting down the basal growth, however, this isn’t always required. These plants require very little work and are able to grow in rocky soils and even high winds and areas with sea spray.

We hope this has restored your faith in gardening and that you are able to see that you can have a fantastic looking garden that is full of plants without really doing any work at all.