What are your most disappointing plants?
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Comments (26)My Ice Plant, Verbena and African Daises have all done very well, survived the coldest winter I've seen here, down to 18 degrees F. (- 8 degrees C.) even! And hot weather as hot as 120 degrees! My Calendulas have always survived just fine, but need a little more water. My Calendulas had flowers fully bloomed this year on the day the temperature got down to 18 degrees F.!!! I couldn't believe it! Other garden also survived that extreme cold (Verbena, African Daisies, Dusty Miller, Ice Plant, Kohlrabi, Chinese Cabbage, Radishes, Stinging Nettle and a few others. Potatoes died that day (18 degrees F.). Geraniums died back, but now they are coming back stronger than ever. I thought the African Daisies would not make it, but they pulled through (just barely)....See MoreWhat are you 3 most used plants in your garden and why?
Comments (29)Clematis are outstanding vines with many colors and forms. I plant the non vining integrifolias in my mixed borders and they just scramble around. We had cedar fences and arbors already that needed decor. I have some blooming from March to October. Daffodils are so easy and so many forms and colors too, not just yellow though the yellow is very cheerful so early in spring. Their foliage is easier to hide than tulips and they are more perennial. I have a lot of crocus and dwarf iris too. Huecheras have great foliage colors though root weevils are a problem here. Grasses come in so many colors and sizes, I just love their blowing in the breeze. Oriental lilies have fantastic fragrance and take up little space. Hostas have great foliage and some are fragrant. They light up the shade. Dwarf Rhodies stay small without pruning and bloom early with the daffodils. Many are grown and hybridized here they do so well. I have about ten small ponds so waterlilies are a natural. Hardy fuchsias do really well here with almost no care and they bloom and bloom and bloom. They don't need shade and as much water as the hanging basket types and aren't whitefly magnets either. I love the hardy geranium Rozanne. What a long blooming workhorse without the scraggly wilty growth of Johnson's Blue. Heaths and heathers are evergreen and some are blooming year'round. They are very easy and mix well with dwarf conifers. Daylilies, well I didn't realize that they all didn't bloom for just a week. Stella never did that well for me and she was supposed to be the longest bloomer so I didn't ever bother with them. I just don't have room for something that blooms a week. Then I moved Always Afternoon and was also intrigued by your posts here........I'm up to a couple dozen I think.......See MoreWhat is/are your most despise plant/s?
Comments (45)I have been hit in the eye with a flying ruella seed. I broke an opal ring digging up Bamboo. We did succeed in containing the bamboo in cement and steel . It was beautiful but a chore. It grew in thick and tall. I had a day flower type flower that went everywhere. Even oxalis became invasive. It took over. The wandering jew and oxalis were a good combo. when the wandering jew was still frozen back to the ground the oxalis would be up and blooming and when in May it got rust and dies, the wandering jew took over. I just let the invasive plants duke it out. I got tired of the battle and put the house up on the market. Now I dig up every oxalis I see on my new property so I can maybe grow some succulents instead.. I did bring some of my plants from the old house and the soil was infected in oxalis corms. Now I just battle cedar. It is easy if you have a chain saw and a match. Out here it is KR bluestem and yellow clover that is proving troublesome. I had an infestation of crownvetch that gets me a ripping in the spring. Most plants that people have problems with is that they aren't giving the plant the room it needs to establish its natural colony. My grandmother had a whole hillside of blackberry. They made a lot of jam. The gregg's mist flower is great if you can give it it LARGE area. otherwise, don't bother. No one has mentioned Pampas grass. I hate cutting it back after a cold winter. Talk about bloody arms! New Zealanders call it sword grass. It made exploring the south island a real chore back in the old days and It has become quite invasive in Californian wetlands. The variety I had not very impressive blooms and the first august storm would drown out the plume pretty quickly. Maybe one of you guys bought my house and all the invasives, and are still swearing at me. LOL. I am much more careful of my choices, now. I have moved west of austin and invasiveness on this high rubble is not the issue. Getting anything to live out here is my challenge....See Moreandreap
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