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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I could remember what gardening magazine did a test of supposedly no-maintenance plants.  They planted groups of three of plants that supposedly require no care like sedum and black eyed susans.  The author watered them for a couple months and then left them to fend for themselves.  Only one plant out of the original 9 was alive by the end of the trial.  [/quote]

Really?  I have planted shasta daisies, coneflower, black-eyed susan, daylilies, and sedum in my yard, watered them for a few days, and done nothing else, and they've come back the next year fine.  I don't fertilize them or anything, but bunnies eat them.  The trick I think was that I planted them at the end of the growing season when it was cooler and wetter.[/quote]

In addition to planting in the fall, you probably water them as needed in the summer, because that's what gardeners do.  Non-gardeners are tricked by marketing plants as no-maintenance and then are disappointed when they don't do well because they assumed that no-maintenance meant don't have to do anything, even water.[/quote]

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