Garden Gate Forums: Maintence Free border

Our flower beds in the back of our house needs maintence free plants because we rarely go out there. We live in a gated, Sr. Citizens community where the back yard is considered common area but you are responsible for the upkeep of your own flower beds. There are some azalea bushes and rose bushes, dusty miller and I recently planted Black eye susan plants and Garden Phlox that were given to me. Roses do beautifully there, they get the morning and early afternoon sun. Even though we have added compost and other soil, we have problems with other plants growing there. One thing is that since we don't go out there often and we have to keep the blinds closed because of the sun all day, we forget to water anything that is planted out there. Not even marigolds took there. Just dug a large stella'dora up but am sure the little offshots will be coming back probably. I'd like to give the neighbors behind us some beauty to see when they look out their windows. The Azalea bushes are old and if they don't do any better next year, they're coming out of there! Any suggestions?

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