Indoor ones, outdoor ones, easy ones, hard ones...

What do you have? What do you love/hate?


I had a small succulent collection at my front door eaten by a few javelinas so I replaced them with a single "wandering Jew" (Tradescantias). It is about the easiest plant in the world to grow and care for, indoor or outdoor. Just got a few flowers recently, so I know it is "happy."

If you have one, you never need to buy any more, as you can simply take a cutting and plant it (needs water everyday for a week or two) and it will take hold.

Great if you have a hanging basket or for ground cover, too.

 

:crickets:

You just know there are a ton of growers here.

 

hahaha

 

I'm terrible with houseplants. I forget them (hey, my dog harasses me when she's hungry - the plants, not so much) and they die or I overwater them and they rot. Terrible.

Outdoors, though, I love to garden. It was the one piece of my old house I was sad to leave - my little garden.

I'm getting started here, though. It's not the best time of year to show you any pics. My Little Lime hydrangeas have already turned antique rose-colored for the fall, and my blues are toast for the season.

We just planted some Red Sprite winterberry hollies along part of the foundation (along with a male Jim Dandy). They're a deciduous (in our zone) holly that drop all the leaves and become covered in red berries in the winter - very striking.

I've created a couple of mixed flower beds around my 2 bird baths and a daylily bed. I've got lots more I want to do in the spring. It's been slow going this season. Nothing's blooming now for me to show you, though!

I also had a veggie garden for the first time this year. It wasn't very productive - too shady. But I learned a bit about what will and won't work to grow in the woods.

 

I call my wife the black widow.

 

I have a spider plant, no joke, really. My mom got it for me as a house warming gift 7 years ago, and it's still doing great

 

Wndr, awesome to hear you are gardening! I wish I cold have better luck with veggies here, but the desert is rough on stuff...

Blck, haha @ the spider plant! As long as it does not bite, you are good...

Planted three grass bushes in the front yard over the summer on a day that hit around 115 degrees, so I did not expect too much... Two out of three lived and are thriving now!

 

I have a jade plant here at the office that was nearly dead, roots completely rotted and drowning in moldy dirt from over watering when I started here. The poor thing couldn't even stand on it's own, the roots were so bad. I have since nursed it back to health, repotted it, and have grown it to 3 times it's original size. I always say that if or when I leave this job, that plant is coming with me.

 

Thanks! (To be honest, I do a lot of plant selecting and pointing to locations where I want the holes dug these days, but I dig when I'm able. It's one of the most fun parts! Next spring, it's ON.)

I was sad to discover that my favorite hanging basket flowers (calibrachoa) won't thrive here - too much shade. I moved the hanging baskets onto the steps, and a couple survived, but were still pretty puny. I'll have to find a new favorite for the baskets next spring.

One of my favorite bed flowers from my old garden was a very nice campanula species. I meant to dig some up before I left, but it was low on the priority list in all the chaos, and I forgot (bad girl). I'm hoping the same nursery will still carry that variety.

I've also put in a couple of azaleas and a hibiscus syriacus (Rose of Sharon), a butterfly bush, a gorgeous red barberry, a crape myrtle, and a Korean spice viburnum. The viburnum wilted almost immediately, but the sticks are still green in places, so I really hope it will come back next year.

I do love to garden.

 

Man,i forget all the great stuff you can grow in your neck of the woods!

I grew up in a yard full of Rhododendrons and Azaleas and a garden that meant we never really bought produce.

Now I am lucky to keep anything non-cactus alive...

Speaking of which, if anyone is looking for a free agave sprout (about 6-8 inches) let me know. Shipping and it is all yours. I keep cutting them off the 2 main plants and replanting them and they grow like crazy and then sprout their own offshoot, which I dig up and replant... I need to learn to make tequila. Seriously, cover postage and it's yours. Anyone?

 

The two original "mother" agave:



One of the offspring with offspring of it's own:

 

i have a few poinsettias that I kept from christmas time, last year.
still growing.

 

 

Can they survive indoors? I know they couldn't survive weather here...

 

Aw, they're so cute.


Where did you grow up, Jefford?

 

Truthfully, I am not sure....


R.I.