Can you give the name of flowers to plant....?
Question:I have a small condo patio. I would like to plant a color (hopefully fragrant) flower that DOES NOT attract bees, loves the sun and is colorful year round in san diego.
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I have a patio with a container garden. I have experimented with several plants and these are the ones that I found are hardy:
Geraniums- fragrant leaves, fabulous flower colors
Gerbera Daisy- No fragrance but attractive flowers
Lillies- attractive and hardy
Verbena- beautiful flower cover and hardy
Most of these flower year round... but if you particularly want color, go for some fancy leaf plant, your local nursery folks can advice. Also get hold of Western Garden Book - it's a gardener's Bible =)
Good luck!
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings; but the whole biological purpose of color and fragrance in a flower is so that it attracts bees or other small, flying pollinators, so it can be fertilized and make seeds for the next generation. And NO plant flowers year-round.
That being said, and I'm saying this in all seriousness...the artifical flower and plant industry has come miles in the last ten years. Silk flowers and plants are sometimes so well done, that I have to get really really close to look and touch before I can tell if it's real or not.
I suggest you shop for a good one that's in a color you like. The benefit of that is you won't have to hire a plant-sitter when you go on vacation, either! Or disease or stress killing it. And it WILL flower year-round!
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