Top 10 Most Low-Maintenance Plants for the Garden

Want your garden to look beautiful and require minimal care? Take a closer look at plants that don't fear shade and don't need frequent watering or pruning. We'll tell you about the most beautiful of them.

1. Crocuses

If you're in the planning stage of your garden or choosing flowers for a new flower bed, consider crocuses. Their juicy small buds appear as early as May and will delight you with their beauty until mid-June. They grow peacefully both in sun and partial shade, and are unparticular about soil quality. Just don't flood the flower bed with crocuses.

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2. Periwinkle

A flowering evergreen plant spreads effortlessly across the ground. Periwinkle isn't afraid of weeds and can grow peacefully in shade. Exceptional resilience and bright blue flowers make it an ideal choice for any garden.

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3. Astilbe

Beautiful flowers will delight you with their colors for more than a month. Some astilbe species grow taller than one meter. The plant starts blooming in early summer and requires periodic watering. However, if you're going on vacation for a couple of weeks and won't be able to tend to your garden, don't worry — astilbe will definitely survive.

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4. Brunnera

Brunnera is considered an indispensable plant for shaded areas. The bush blooms starting in mid-April and lasts over a month. Green leaves of brunnera are complemented by numerous bright small blue flowers that look very much like forget-me-nots. A brunnera bush can reach from 30 to 50 cm in height and looks great in the garden when paired with shade-loving hostas and astilbe.

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5. Lupines

This low-maintenance plant can be found not only on garden plots but also on fields. Blue, white, pink, and purple spike-like inflorescences appear in early June. But that's not all — lupine continues blooming in the second half of summer. The plant easily propagates from seeds and winters beautifully.

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6. Hosta

The most versatile garden plant. It is completely low-maintenance and thrives in both shade and partial shade. It tolerates drought and cold well. The juicy large green leaves of hosta are considered a perfect backdrop for compositions with other flowers. Over time, the hosta bush spreads and becomes even more beautiful.

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7. Phlox

One of the brightest and most fragrant perennials in the garden, which grows even on poor soils. Phlox tolerates partial shade well but blooms best in sunny spots. Blooming starts in mid-summer and continues until autumn frosts.

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8. Turkish Pink

Vibrant multicolored frilly flowers of pink blooming in June. These aromatic inflorescences are hard to mistake for other plants. Pink is considered one of the most low-maintenance flowers, and you can find it almost on every plot. It doesn't like overly wet soil and grows beautifully both in sunlight and partial shade.

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9. Savory

A completely low-maintenance plant that won't require any effort from you in care. It's because savory grows in forest clearings and on dry meadows. You can identify it by compact bushes with small soft green leaves and clusters of abundant small lilac-pink flowers. At the end of summer, savory can be dried and used in herbal teas.

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10. Fern

If you have shaded corners on your garden where flowering plants don't thrive, plant ferns there. They tolerate adverse conditions and poor soil well. But they look absolutely stunning.

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To make your garden look excellent all year round, add some beautiful decor and outdoor lighting.

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