Low Maintenance Perennial Mailbox Garden

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.

Low maintenance perennial mailbox garden.

Continue to 6 of 12 below. The drawback to perennial flowers. 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.

Mojave portulaca is great for mailbox gardens because it is low maintenance drought and salt tolerant and is colorful all season long. It s drought tolerant will grow in poor soil and is a sun worshiper. 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. The plants prefer cool nights full sun and sandy soil rewarding gardeners with red flowers that resemble kangaroo paws.

A combination of annuals and perennials makes a lovely cottage style mailbox garden. 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. This hardy yellow flower is an iconic garden plant.

A deep purple clematis climbs the mailbox post.