What is a 'high-maintenance' plant?

What is a 'high-maintenance' plant?

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A high maintenance plant would be a plant that requires frequent division to look its best, it might require a daily deadheading. It can be extremely invasive or aggressive. It could also require heavy fertilizing, in fact maybe fertilizing through the spring and into the summer to look its best.