I love gardens and beautiful flowers, but I have a black thumb when it comes to outdoors. I can manage violets and some other indoor plants, but outside is a complete bust. I also don't do well in heat, so there you have it, I'm not going to spend time outside once it is hot, hot, hot.
We (college girl, dh and I) did some outside painting (I did the pick up work, no painting). Then I bought some potted plants to put in the garden area. While they all said 'sun', come to find out, they do better in shade or filtered light, so I am moving them around to get them out of the heat of the sun.
Anyway, I can imagine what my garden would look like if I had some success. The pots will do for now. Anything in the ground (I've tried petunias, etc) just dry up (the water runs off.)
How about you? What do you have in your garden? I'd like flowers and fragrance -- is it a surprise?
Karin
Originally posted 2008-03-17 11:35:06.
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I am a *terrible*, chronically tragic gardener, so I have given up
I just buy bouquets of fresh flowers for the house and keep green grassy things on the pergolas and leave them to their fate: they tend to multiply by themselves, die and begin afresh
Why don’t you grow lilacs? They’re little trees actually and belong to the olive family, so they’re sturdy and they’re wonderfully fragrant for spring!
I sympathize! I’ve been having fresh flowers this year too. I didn’t think lilies would do well here, because of the heat, but I could be wrong.
The only flowers I’ve had are from the Plumbago that I planted instead of the ugly green shrubs.
I’m enjoying my fuchsia plants. I figured if they lasted longer than cut flowers, I’d be ahead of the game.
I need something to find that would flower in a garden off my bath. Unfortunately there is no outside access and we’ve more or less blocked the inside access (without moving things) so it would have to do with whatever natural water there is, which varies from torrential to simply hot and humid.
Hmmm….baths are hard! I had immortelle in a built-in big pot next to the tub in mine (immortelle means immortal/everlasting after all) and it managed to die as well…..
I think it was due to excess moisture and lack of good light (well, one does shade the shades when taking a bath, right?)
Good luck!
My garden area is outside in strong sunlight and no outside water except for rain. We have a door from the bath to it, but it is really a pretty unusable area.
That’s funny about the immortelle! I’m sure I could do it too.
I put my calla lilies in the side yard with lots of shade. Since they grow like weeds in CA, maybe they will do OK for me?