What is a good starter garden?
Start small and expand when you are ready. A good starter size is 50-75 square feet. Grow vegetables that you like to eat and are expensive to buy. Some of the easiest vegetables are bush bean, tomato, cucumber, pepper, lettuce, summer squash, and leafy greens (swiss chard, kale, mustard, etc. A few simple edible plants you can get started with and easily grow in pots are grape tomatoes, mini bell peppers, banana peppers, lettuce and herbs. Surprisingly, lettuce only needs a 6-inch-deep pot as they have very shallow roots. The same goes for kale! Radishes can grow in a 4-inch pot.
What is the best all year round plant?
Evergreen flowering perennials will keep their green foliage all year, long after the blooming season is over. Many herbs are particularly known for being great practical flowering plants with evergreen foliage, such as Lavender, Rosemary, and Salvia, among others. Evergreens, ornamental grasses, and drought-tolerant shrubs require minimal care. Consider plants such as lavender, heather, or sedum, which need little attention but provide year-round interest.A few of our favourite low maintenance plants include Buxus Balls, Cordylines, Eucalyptus, Fatsia Caster Oil, Ornamental Grasses and Palms and each of these plants are hardy and evergreen meaning you will have all year round structure within your garden displays.Some of the most popular low-maintenance outdoor potted plants are purple fountain grass, rose, rosemary, garden sage, winter jasmine, fuchsia, Japanese maple, and thyme.