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Low-maintenance Plants for Your Garden

For an easy, enjoyable garden, select low-maintenance plants for your garden.

sensitive briar, a low growing trailing plant with bright small pink pompom type flowers

This amazing native plant actually moves when you touch it

Drought-tolerant, Ground Cover, Heat-tolerant, Low maintenance, Native Plants

If you haven’t been introduced to this tiny plant with fuzzy little pink flowers, you are missing out. It might not be much to look at, but sensitive briar does something pretty amazing. It moves. By itself. No, really. Sensitive briar – Mimosa spp. There are several species in the genus Mimosa that share the common name sensitive briar or …

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Black-eyed Susan flowers with a butterfly feeding on one flower

My Favorite Plant-It-And-Forget-It Flower: Black-eyed Susan

Deer-resistant, Drought-tolerant, Flowers, Heat-tolerant, Low maintenance, Native Plants

If you're looking for a plant-it-and-forget-it type of plant that still produces lots of flowers AND attracts pollinators, then look no further than the black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta). This easy-to-grow wildflower is found throughout North America where you can find it alongside roads, in grassy openings and prairies, and even along the edge …

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Pink Evening Primrose

How to Grow Pink Evening Primrose

Deer-resistant, Drought-tolerant, Flowers, Ground Cover, Heat-tolerant, Low maintenance, Native Plants, Wet Soils

Sundays after church, my dad would pile the family into the car and take us for a drive through the countryside just outside the boundaries of the big city. We would see miles of delicate pink flowers lining the edges of the roads, growing the cracks in the sidewalk, and on the banks of the hills. Pink evening primrose is one of the wildflowers …

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Low-Maintenance Container Gardens

Cacti & Succulents, Low maintenance, Projects & Ideas

With the hot sun and the high humidity of our Mississippi summers, having a lot of container gardens sprinkled around my yard  usually means I'm going to have to do a lot of watering each week. Watering my garden is a tedious chore. The hose gets tangled on everything, my shoes usually end up getting wet, and it gives the mosquitoes plenty of …

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Partridge pea flower

Partridge Pea: Butterfly Host Plant & Pollinator Plant

Drought-tolerant, Flowers, Heat-tolerant, Insects, Low maintenance, Native Plants, Wildlife Habitat

Summer is the time of the year that you’ll see the bright yellow flowers of partridge pea blooming along the side of the road or along streams and ditches. They will continue to flower from late summer to early fall. Creates Food for Pollinators & Wildlife This little plant packs a mighty punch when it comes to benefiting …

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Common buttonbush flower with skipper butterfly

Buttonbush for Wet Soils and Cool Blooms!

Low maintenance, Native Plants, Shade Areas, Trees & Shrubs, Wet Soils

Nature produces some interesting shapes, which is true for the flower of the buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis). Common buttonbush (or buttonwillow) produces these crazy-looking little spiky ball-like blooms of compound florets. They’re pretty cool, actually, and both bees and butterflies agree. I recently caught this skipper butterfly …

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