r/Zone6Gardening

I had a lot of fun with my first year of gardening! This might be a dumb question, but I have this wall I would like to try to grow a couple of mammoth sunflowers in front of next year. The problem is the wall is on the NE side and the open yard is SW. if I grow the flowers near the wall on highlighted section (second pic) are the open blooms likely to just face the wall vs the yard? Is it worth even trying? I know the obvious answers to plant somewhere else, but I’m kinda determined to create some sort of flower bed in that area next year. Thanks!

I have an overgrown area which was a sluice. What to cut, what to grow? I’ve identified white snakeroot sedges and periwinkle. Was thinking compare n save weed and grass killer, then planting? I’m pretty open to anything

I am new to this, so accept my apologies in advance for my ignorance on gardening.

So. I had 5 roses…I can only remember the name of 1, which is Mr Lincoln. I’ve given them their own names now since I love them like I birthed them. Well, one of my roses failed (RIP) and now I’m down to 4. 1 is potted and 3 are in the ground. I want to replace the one I lost, but ChatGPT told me to wait until next year. Is it really too late to replace them this year? Chat also told me to space them out more because it could hinder their growth. Is this true? Should I not get another rose there and just space them?

Also, my potted rose is doing insanely good. It is getting too big for the pot. Do I wait until next year to repot. Do you think it will survive if I put it in the ground?
They were all planted at the same time, (the potted one 2 weeks before), all on the same side of the house (lots of morning sun). The ones in the ground are just growing so slow while the potted one is just growing like crazy!

I live in the Midwest

Lastly. This is my first year with roses. I bought them early this spring. Please don’t judge my garden. I know she is looking a little sad.I plan on beautifying it up some more next year. I’ve been taking some inspiration from your beautiful gardens.

Love y’all for reading till you got this far. And I’m sorry it’s all over the place. I’m trying to hurry and write before my actual child wakes up from his nap. lol.

Starting last fall and continuing this spring I planted a bunch of natives, other perennials, and some annuals in my front yard that used to be Kentucky Blue Grass. I’m generally pleased and the pollinators love it, but I don’t have much red or orange- and those are the colors I think would really complement my house. What little I currently have with these colors is mostly from annuals.

Can I please get recommendations for perennials and smallish shrubs that do well in part sun with lightly amended soil over our typical bad clay, and bring a lot of red and orange?

My initial ideas are Cardinal Flower (Lobelia) and Arkwright’s Campion-Vesuvius. Anyone have seeds of these or other red/orange plants to share?

Zone 6b, a friend gave me pumpkin seeds this year and I never got around to planting them. Left my gardening stuff outside and it got rained on (stupid I know!) and they grew right through the packaging. Do I plant them now? What are the chances I have pumpkins by late Oct? 😂

I had some leftover metal sheets from another project so I made this raised 5x5 gardening bed, I honestly have no clue why I even did it. And now I don’t know what to do with it.

• how should I cover the corners? Right now there’s cardboard but that will disintegrate eventually

• it’s August and I don’t have anything to transplant. Is it worth starting anything at this point in the year in Northeast Ohio? I’m getting mixed answers

So I guess my ambivalence about when to pull summer plants for fall plants has been solved😂😳🧐