Right Plant, Right Place

Ten easy-to-grow vegetables
Fragrant annuals
For hanging baskets
Herbs for teas
For poor soil
For edging
Annuals for the night life
Moisture tolerant
Drought tolerant
Moist and cool conditions
For dry and hot conditions
Annual vines
For cut flowers
Butterfly and hummingbird
For beginners

Ten easy-to-grow vegetables
1.      beans (French, broad & runner)
2.      beets
3.      garlic
4.      lettuce
5.      onions (shallots)
6.      potatoes (early)
7.      pumpkins
8.      radish
9.      squash
10.     zucchini

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Fragrant annuals
-     heliotrope
-     nemesia
-     nicotiana
-     pansy
-     petunia
-     snapdragon
-     sweet alyssum
-     sweet pea
-     stock
-     zinnia

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For hanging baskets
-     black-eyed Susan vine
-     fuchsia
-     heliotrope
-     begonia
-     impatiens
-     ivy
-     geranium
-     lobelia
-     petunia
-     verbena
-     scaevola
-     million bells
-     lysimachia
-     bidens
-     bacopa

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Herbs for teas
-     lemon balm
-     lemon verbena
-     peppermint
-     spearmint
-     sage (green , purple & tricolour)

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For poor soil
-     amaranthus
-     celosia
-     cleome
-     morning glory
-     nasturtium
-     alyssum

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For edging
-     ageratum
-     dusty miller
-     lobelia
-     marigold
-     alyssum
-     sweet William
-     fibrous begonia

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Annuals for the night life
-     cosmos (white)
-     impatiens (white)
-     nicotiana (white)
-     petunia (white)
-     alyssum (white)
-     bacopa (white)

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Moisture tolerant
-     browallia
-     impatiens
-     pansy
-     salvia
-     torenia

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Drought tolerant
-     ageratum
-     amaranthus
-     fibrous begonia
-     calendula
-     celosia
-     cleome
-     coleus
-     cosmos
-     dusty miller
-     gazania
-     marigold
-     nasturtium
-     nicotiana
-     pansy
-     petunia
-     portulaca
-     salvia
-     snapdragon
-     straw flower
-     sunflower
-     alyssum
-     verbena
-     zinnia

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Moist and cool conditions
-     calendula
-     nemesia
-     nicotiana
-     dianthus
-     sweet pea
-     torenia
-     verbena

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For dry and hot conditions
-     celosia
-     cleome
-     cornflower
-     phlox
-     salvia
-     zinnia

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Annual vines
-     black-eyed Susan vine
-     moonflower
-     morning glory
-     nasturtium
-     scarlet runner bean
-     sweet pea


For cut flowers
-     browallia
-     calendula
-     celosia
-     china aster
-     cornflower
-     cosmos
-     marigold
-     nicotiana
-     pansy
-     salvia
-     snapdragon
-     statice
-     sunflower
-     verbena
-     zinnia
-     lily

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Butterfly and hummingbird
-     cleome
-     cosmos
-     nasturtium
-     nicotiana
-     pentas
-     salvia
-     verbena
-     zinnia

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For beginners
-     ageratum
-     celosia
-     cleome
-     cosmos
-     marigold
-     nasturtium
-     petunia
-     portulaca
-     phlox
-     alyssum
-     zinnia

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