Low Maintenance Perennial Mailbox Garden

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 perennial mailbox garden.

This hardy yellow flower is an iconic garden plant. Mojave portulaca is great for mailbox gardens because it is low maintenance drought and salt tolerant and is colorful all season long. Pinch off spent blooms and flowers just keep coming. 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.

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. 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. Apr 13 2012 i did a post a while back on my front yard garden spots where i wrote about my mailbox garden and felt today that i needed to update what i ve done since then. A deep purple clematis climbs the mailbox post.

It s drought tolerant will grow in poor soil and is a sun worshiper. The drawback to perennial flowers. It blooms from early summer to frost. The plants prefer cool nights full sun and sandy soil rewarding gardeners with red flowers that resemble kangaroo paws.

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.