Low Maintenance Perennial Mailbox Garden

This hardy yellow flower is an iconic garden plant.

Low maintenance perennial mailbox garden.

A deep purple clematis climbs the mailbox post. The drawback to perennial flowers. It s drought tolerant will grow in poor soil and is a sun worshiper. This easiest of easy perennial grows about two feet tall so it s perfect for the middle of a mixed bed or planted around a mailbox.

This bed uses silvery gray lamb s ears which produce spikes of lavender blooms along with gold daylilies pink torenia and low growing purple petunias and calibrachoa. The plants prefer cool nights full sun and sandy soil rewarding gardeners with red flowers that resemble kangaroo paws. It blooms from early summer to frost. Good tough perennial flowers or shrubs offer some benefits when planted around mailbox posts since they will never need to be replanted and often fill in to form dense masses that will block out weeds.

I really haven t done much as far as adding plants goes but i can definitely tell you that a little mulch goes my mailbox garden read more. Continue to 6 of 12 below. Pinch off spent blooms and flowers just keep coming. The kangaroo paw plant is native to western australia but gardeners living in zones 9 or warmer can grow this red exotic flower as a perennial in the mailbox garden.

Low maintenance is a good virtue for these locations and many perennials fit the bill nicely.