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Flower bulbs? Last year I bought a bunch and put them all in but there’s still tons of bare yard that’s nothing but dirt this time of year. But I feel so irresponsible buying flowers instead of new appliances or whatever.

As long as your appliances or whatever aren't falling apart, go for it. A good yard is worth the price of admission alone.

You can get something cheaper to fill out the spaces maybe? Bulbs can get pricey. If you don't like like creepers or spreading ground cover, maybe just different flowers? A few packets of seed won't set you back as much and they'll go further than bulbs. Plus you can learn how to collect the seed and store it for next year if you're growing annuals.

AYRT—I know bulbs can get pricey and I have lots of flower seeds. I just planted a bunch of stuff and something mowed most of them down before they got a second set of leaves. I love daffodils because there’s not much that’ll eat them. Also they only need water part of the year. I keep throwing native drought tolerant stuff in the ground, but even the stuff that thrives is like bulbs in that it goes dormant during the dry season (aka April-October). Sigh. I wish it actually rained a decent amount here more than twice a decade. Even keeping seedlings alive long enough to establish their roots is a chore.

If you can wait until next spring, maybe think about flower/herb seeds instead? Zinnias, sunflowers and cosmos are all pretty easy to grow from seed and provide lots of color AND bees love them.

I do grow annual wildflowers and herbs and some perennial stuff; there’s just a lot of yard. I really want a big vegetable garden, but more than anything else that takes lots of fertile, well drained soil and water. The lot is 7,500 square feet and not much of that is house. I feel like I spend 70% of any disposable income on plants and seeds and water, but except in late fall through early spring, keeping big swaths of wildflowers alive is a battle with thirsty clay soil and dry hot weather.

I wish I liked cactus and succulent gardens; I have tons of dragon fruit, a couple agaves, some kind of prickly pear, some big aloes, a terrifying thorny monster I can’t identify that’s taller than me with three-inch long death spines that I can’t get rid of because I’m scared to go near it, and a fucking huge yucca that I want gone, but it’s not going anywhere without a mondo chainsaw, a crane, and maybe a bulldozer. Or dynamite.

I will probably buy a few bulbs and scatter native and drought tolerant wildflower seeds around, if we get any rain I can at least have California poppies. When it gets cold enough I’ll do lettuce and kale and some peas. I’m gonna plant early flowering sweet peas tomorrow and hope they don’t fry—some years they go gangbusters by Christmas, and some years they fizzle and I settle for the spring flowering kind and plant them in winter.

...and there will still be lots of weedy mostly empty space. Sigh.

I take it you're somewhere with no actual winter. Bulbs are okay but a lot of the flowers that come from bulbed plants bloom only in early spring and then they're done the rest of the year. Not all, but a fair amount.

If you've got bare ground and don't want to seed a lawn, I'd suggest looking into native wild plants. Not all of them are drought resistant (sadly) but native plants to your state and specifically your region are accustomed to growing in that area, through good times and bad. They also have the added bonus of basically not having to care for them once they get established - they're meant to grow there, so they'll seed and propagate without a lot of work on your part.

A secondary option would be some kind of ground cover plant that propagates by runners or rhizomes, creepers basically, but the downside of those is that they can get out of control very easily. I'm currently waging a five-year battle against the four varieties of lamium the previous owners of our house allowed to take over the lawn.

AYRT—yeah, definitely no actual winter here; we might hit freezing for part of one or two nights in an exceptionally cold year. The last time it snowed here my dad was a toddler. I do have native stuff going, but aside from a few trees—I have a native (winter deciduous) walnut and evergreen oak—most of it is summer deciduous, or just looks ragged and shitty all summer.

I have neigbors with native-only yards and they look like shit right now. Most of the good looking xeriscaped yards here use cactus and/or South African and Australian plants, and even they need water to not shrivel up until it rains. Palm trees do okay once established, but I don’t much like them. Oddly, my mango is going gangbusters and fruiting with zero supplemental water, so maybe I should be looking into stuff that thrives in the drier parts of India.

As for ground covers, I can’t think of any that would be invasive without water except some kinds of weedy grass. Sorry about your lamium invasion! I would send you my Asparagus setaceus to battle it for supremacy, but the winner might eat the world.

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