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Top 10 Easiest Flowers To Grow In Your Garden

Do you live in an urban land where gardening is next to impossible? Well, if you love gardening, you wouldn't want to stay away from it in any way. You can either create the urban beds such that you can plant the flowers and plants that you want on the window sill or on the patio outside your home or you can create a low maintenance garden out of your urban home.

Even while you are enjoying your urban home, there are chances of gardening with the modern gardening techniques. One such technique is the raised bed which allows you to garden at your own residence.

Top 10 East Flowers To Grow

If you don’t own a patio, as in some cases, you can get your window sill to convert into your garden. Some people have indoor plants that don’t need sunlight and can live on water itself. This is another way of fulfilling your gardening hobby.

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But the best way to maintain a garden in an urban space is by going in for low maintenance gardens. Plant flowers or trees that don’t require much maintenance and they would still grow without much effort from your end!

Here is a list of ten easy to grow flowers for an urban garden.

Sunflowers
From seed to a fully grown flower, sunflower is possibly one of the rewarding flowers to have in your garden. The ideal month to plant the seed would be somewhere between March and May. You could choose April for best results. If you are living in an urban land, get a 3 inch pot, plant the seed in that pot and water it regularly. In a few weeks you would find seedlings coming out. Just make sure you protect it from slugs.

Daffodils
Another easy to grow flower for an urban garden! Generally, February is the ideal time to plant bulbs so that you can find the flowers blooming by autumn. You need to make sure that the bulbs are disease free so that they flower for years. You need both patience and expertise when you are gardening daffodils from seeds.

Sweet Peas
Urban gardens just love sweet peas but, the one thing you need to remember is that you need to keep them protected from slugs. This too is ideally planted in a 3 inch pot so that they can grow well. You should ideally make sure that you keep cutting flowers so that the sweet pea flowers extend well during their flowering season.

Nigella
Another easy to grow flower is the Nigella! You just need to scatter the seeds in the garden and let it be. These flowers tend to look after themselves. Just keep spraying organic pest resistant to allow them to bloom well.

Aquilegia
If you are looking to plant a flower that does not need much of maintenance and would bloom into a beautiful flower, consider planting aquilegia. They grow directly from the seeds to a fully bloomed flower.

Penstemon
One of the easiest flowers to grow is penstemon. It flowers for years after it has been planted. You only need to look after it to make sure no slugs trouble them. The best part of these flowers is that they have a long flowering season.

Iris
This is a spring flower that you should ideally plant sometime around February. It is another low maintenance flower that grows from seed.

Primrose
This is yet another spring flower. It is another flower that is easy to grow. It should be ideally split to create more plants.

Sweet Williams
Growing Sweet Williams is a low maintenance job. You protect it from pests and slugs. It is an amazing cut flower.

Nasturtium
It grows directly from the seed that is planted into the soil. You need to wait till frost is over to ensure their perfect growth. You need to scatter large seeds on the soil which flower fast.

Story first published: Monday, March 3, 2014, 18:38 [IST]
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