Low Maintenance Perennial Mailbox Garden

The plants prefer cool nights full sun and sandy soil rewarding gardeners with red flowers that resemble kangaroo paws.

Low maintenance perennial mailbox garden.

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. It s drought tolerant will grow in poor soil and is a sun worshiper. Mojave portulaca is great for mailbox gardens because it is low maintenance drought and salt tolerant and is colorful all season long. 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. Continue to 6 of 12 below. It blooms from early summer to frost. 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.

Pinch off spent blooms and flowers just keep coming. The drawback to perennial flowers. 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 combination of annuals and perennials makes a lovely cottage style mailbox garden.

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.