Help! I need gardening advice!?

You want to stick with annuals if you are not an advanced garden, because it is a lot of work and research to select perennials that will provide a constant stream of color.

It is too early to plant them now, though you can go to any store and get seed starting kits that you can start inside (without a greenhouse), or to some nurseries where you can get seedlings that you can grow inside until weather gets better. We are in New England and it was in late 60's/early 70's last week but a big snow storm is coming late this pm or early.

Pansies are very reliable and require little care, come in wide variety of colors.

Other things: Dahlias (if you plant the bulbs now you could be okay, some of mine I take up every year and others I leave in because they were inexpensive.) Half a day is fine for MOST flowers. Stay away from impatiens because they need lots of water. Other annuals that work well are tubular begonias, or regular begonias. Regular begonias have various shades of red foliage, so they are colorful even when they don't bloom. And you can take them in during the winter for indoors.

There are the old standbys, geraniums, that are nearly impossible to kill. Your best bet is to go to a local nursery and talk to them. Try and stay with plants that are native to you climate as they will require the least amount of work. Some wildflowers are very nice and need virtually no care as long as it rains once in a while. Just make sure you don't get things that would be invasive or too much of a weed mix.

Daylilies come back every year and come in lots of colors. They even have dwarf varieties which take up very little space. Normal (non-dwarf) daylilies slowly spread, so you can transplant them to other areas of the yard, or trade them with friends.

Mint has lots of varieties, attracts lots of bees, but spreads like a son-of-a-b****.

I simply like perennials because they tend to multiply. I also like butterfly weed (asclepias), and cosmos. Butterfly weed makes seed pods like milkweed.

plant some lily bulbs. you can get them in all sorts of colors and styles. they are very low maintenance.

I love Pansies