Best Low Maintenance Plants

My property is fairly large, and there are so many landscaped areas, we are having a hard time maintaining it. Well, we would have an easier time, if the previous owners didn;t let things get so overgrown.

Anyway- I really want to try to rip stuff out, and plant low maintenance stuff that always looks good, and won't cost me time and money in terms of trimming and keeping neat looking, etc.

Would like reccos for shady areas, and very sunny too.

Re: Best Low Maintenance Plants

I have a black thumb. These are the things I have done nothing or almost nothing to and they keep coming back nicely.

I like Black Eyed Susans in big bunches. Gorgeous. I also do nothing to my hydrangea and theyre always fine. My Rose of Sharon is big and healthy with lots of flowers and it keeps sending out new seedlings. My climbing hydrangea I have on the fence. - awesome. LOVE my sea grass. The most I have done is cut it down in the fall or early spring.

The ones that need some work or I dont love are:

Peonies. I have 2 huge bushes and they are AMAZING. Instead of using tomato cages like most do when the flower is just about to open I cut it and send it with a child to school or bring it to work or put them on my table AMAZING how many huge flowers I get with NO care, however in the late summer it always seems to get black spots on the leaves.

Roses - my rose bush is alright. Just a rose here and there - eh.

Blood Grass - I thought it was gorgeous grass but I then read it could be invasive and it is.

Day Lillies - they come back on their own with no problem, however late summer I need to take down all the brown stalks, which end up like sticks. Takes me forever b/c I have a lot of them.

Daisys - looks like a giant weed in my opinion until the flowers come out LOL

Violets - invasive - spread like crazy, even in my grass.

I have a couple I like but forgot the name, but my favorite is my small Red weeping? Japanese Maple and a weeping cypress? Pretty neat.

Im moving and will be digging all this up to bring with me LMBO!