Busy gardeners, new gardeners, four season flowering.
Tasmania and some parts of Victoria; knock on the door and ask for an offset. I have done this, and folks growing these are happy to give you babies.
Greedy people charge up to &100 per bulb for this.
At school fetes and church fetes, you can often pick this up for around $5.00c. Brunsvigia thrive in full sun, even part shade. They are not fussy about their soil,there is a lot of old nonsense written about these. I have seen these flowering in Tasmania, not far below the snow line towards the foothills of Cradle mountain. Crinums Crocosmias Cypella herbertii Dietes Eucomus grandiflora Haemanthus Herbertia Hymenocallis Liliums Milla biflora Rigidella - in Oz, Ken has these. Tulbaghia Watsonia Zephyranthes
Fall flowering. Cyclamen Cyrthanthus sanguineus Habranthus Leucojum autumnalis, though this can flower mid summer depending on your climate. Nerines Sternbergia lutea
This is a short list because we are only looking at the can't kill these plants.
Winter flowering. Clivia Galanthus Lachenalias Moreas Narcissus Cypella .
The above list of bulbs is very basic, but a garden needs colour all year round. Most folks don't have time to lift bulbs these days, and none of the above require lifting.
Some easy alpine type plants to grow: Within the family Helichrysum ( paper flowers ) there are some really nice easy to grow specimens. Depending on where you are reading this, the ones for you will be found in your local nursery, so ask them.
Also Raoulias are good for dry places, I say dry because this is written for the busy, no time to water new gardener. These compositae like dry deep drainage, the tiny ground hugging rosettes will over time spread out and make good accent plants between bulbs; should your bulbs be overcome by the spreading Raoulia, fret not, the ones on this list will flower through the Raoulia. R. Hookeri. a dense moss like carpet of bright silver rosettes. R. Lutescens. tight and as flat as moss. Glaucous green foliage with masses of tiny yellow flowers in summer. R.parkii. Like R.Hookeri but with larger rosettes. Yellow flowers in late summer.
A couple of small shrubs.
Birch - Betula nana. A deciduous shrub with tiny leaves. to 45cm. Buxus microphylla compacta. slow growing tight little buns of 10 - 15cm. Prunus tenella gesslerana - The dwarf Russian Almond. A decidous suckering shrub with racemes ( flowers ) along the stem in early spring, to 60cm when established.
Apparently not everyone like tall trees dropping leaves, I can respect this, but don't understand this.
I find that no matter how small your land is - you can always fit in trees, they afford protection to bulbs and other
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