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[quote=Anonymous][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, [b]because that's what gardeners do[/b].  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]

The only things I water are

1. shrubs, in their first year, it the weather is hot and dry. 
2. the blueberries
3. the camellia (but nobody needs to have a camellia)
4. the plants in containers

I agree that "low-maintenance" doesn't mean "you don't ever have to do anything and it will look great!" But there are plenty of plants for this area that will fend for themselves almost completely, once they're established.[/quote]

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