Planting new flowers in old flower bed?

I just bought a house and the landscaping is awful! I want to uproot all of the flowers/plants that are in the flower beds in my yard b/c they look really bad and weren't taken care of. I have no idea how to do this and am seekin some advice on how I should make everything look better.

Planting new flowers in old flower bed?
We bought a new house last year so I know how you feel. First see if there's anything that can be relocated. Sometimes a plant that looks terrible where it is would look fine somewhere else. I know you want to make the place your own, but the plants are innocent victims. If they seem like they might be used elsewhere, use them.





One issue for me would be the quality of the soil. If the former owner drenched his beds with chemicals then you could have a situation on your hands. If what is there is growing well, assume you're safe until you find out otherwise.





This late in the season I'd recommend going to the garden center and buying some cheap and cheerful annuals, like marigolds, geraniums, etc. Then you will have time to plan what you'll put in this fall - bulbs, grasses, perennials, shrubs, and so on.





So take out whatever you can use and plant it somewhere else, and then Roundup the remaining weeds. Once everything is dead (a few days) pull it up and start over. Mulch around the new plants with mulch that doesn't contain fertilizer (stinky stuff!) and water well.
Reply:Take it slow! It's too hot to start a big project now, and it's the wrong time to set out new plants except bedding annuals.


First, get in the beds and do some judicious weeding. Pull the things you know are weeds, deadhead the flowers, put some fresh mulch down. If your flowerbeds look bad because of lack of care, the solution is to cure them, not kill them.


Figure out what's annuals and what's perennials. If they are annuals, they'll be over soon. You can pull them up or leave them.


If they are perennials, decide if you hate them entirely or just don't like them where they are. If you hate them entirely, you can go ahead %26amp; spot-treat with Roundup. If you want to move them, maintain them where they are until fall.


For now, go to a garden center and get enough flowering annuals to fill in where you've taken out things. They will require more care than annuals planted earlier in the year.


Fall is for planting - that's the time to move what you want to salvage, and replace the rest.