Gardeners represent!!!

[carnation]

I was selecting pink periwinkle to mass in front of our house and then I saw them in the sale section--wine and white carnation plants and miniature red rosebushes! Too perfect for our Pi Phi/ChiO/AOII family!

So now I have a Panhellenic garden too, with hopes of more to come...and I'm so satisfied with the front of the house and its pink, peach, and yellow flowers!

Who out there gardens? What have you planted lately?

I'm trying my hand at gardening for the first time this year... I've taken over care of the rose bush that was here when we moved in, and planted some Nasturtium in the front yard... they are supposed to be un-killable - hopefully that's true!

[TigerLilly]

I have to confine myself to potted plants now, since I live in the dorms...but I will have pink roses in my yard some day.

[AGDLynn]

Last year, I planted red and yellow/gold marigolds last year. This year, I haven't gotten in the mood cause it has either been raining or too hot. Luckily the 1st owner planted some perineal..okya, every year flowers, lol. Don't know what they are but they are pretty. One is tall column of white flowers and the other is tall green leaves and taller yellow/orange flowers. Sorry for the terrible descriptions but hey, I kill silk flowers.

[honeychile]

I have two brown thumbs, but my mama helps me keep some color in my yard! I do have wild violets, and I don't care what the Chem Lawn people say, they're welcome in my yard! They also grow in a stone wall I have - very pretty! I pick them & freeze them for fun ice cubes - I've been an ADPi MUCH too long!

I really tried hard to have a rose garden, but the only two that are still living are of unknown origin and nothing seems to kill them! They're a burgundy "seven sisters" like rose - lots of small blooms.

My pride & joy are my peonies! I have them around my deck - mostly white but one rich deep pink. Their smell is heavenly, and the foliage is great all summer long. When I'm blue, I sit on the porch swing with a good book and just inhale....

I just saw an article in Southern Living about propagating azaleas, and I decided to try it. Wish me luck!

[KillarneyRose]

I'm trying my hand at lavender. It's supposed to be pretty hearty, but time will only tell if it can withstand my black thumb!

[justamom]

honeychile-I just saw an article in Southern Living about propagating azaleas, and I decided to try it. Wish me luck!

I didn't pick up that issue! Here is a really easy way though-
Take a longish branch and by a joint (not to woody) give it a little slice with a very sharp knife. Use a little root stimulater and bend it into another pot with some Miracle Grow potting soil. Secure it with something-you can even use those large bobby pins-soit is fixed in the dirt. Add water and wait. This way, you can "hide" the new pot in the bigger pot and water each t the same time. Once it gets root's, you can cut the branch to separate it from the main plant. Or, just stick a branch in water-take off all but 2 or three leaves and hope.

This year we added a bird bath. It has a border of Holly for the winter red but from spring till frost it is surrounded by lantana (yellow) and some other plant I stuck in a big curve that flowers a hot-hot pink. The backdrop is fashion azaleas with a hot pink bogenviella (sp?) twisting around the birdbath.

I use perennials almost exclusively. Right now, I've got 3 trays of cutting I'm working on. Some got black leg but others are thriving. My courtyard is covered with evergreen wisteria for summer blooms. In the winter, Carolina Jasmine blooms.
We have a LOT of BEES! Today I made Hubby stay home so we can do some yard work!

Best plant in the world if you like yellow, purple or a white/yellow-LANTANA!!! So sturdy, it was once classified as a weed, but it has become a standard here.

I have TRIED and TRIED tomatoes...hornworm gets 'em every time. Have you ever SEEN one of those suckers??? (shiver-oooh ugly critter and BIG!)
I won't use pesticides.
Killarney-I failed with Lavander! I sooo wanted it to work out! Maybe I cared too much!

[Kevin]

Currently I'm growing tomatoes, jalepenos and strawberries.

Whoever said something about those horn worms.. Where do they come from!? I use sevendust on my plants. Seems to work fairly well.

[honeychile]

Justamom, the garden column of the latest Southern Living gave the hint I'm going to try. It was basically the same as you mentioned, only to put the cutting (with Root Tone, into Miracle grow soil) right where you want it. Water it well, then take a clear 2-liter bottle with the top cut off, and place it over top to make a miniature greenhouse.

When she was little, my mama knew a man who was constanting taking rose cuttings and using mason jars to do basically the same thing - I guess that's why I trust this method!

[bsp-mich24]

Well my house plants are green growing and thriving...outside it a different storey.

I too busy to properly maintain the sqaush and bell peppers I'm trying to grow (oh well, better luck next yr).

The azeleas, and summer plants are doing great! I want to plant some jasmine and a very small bed of allysum (front and back yard).

[aephi alum]

Bumping this old thread...

I just started some basil seeds yesterday. I'm planning on growing basil, cilantro, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers this year.

I have to do everything in containers on my deck, otherwise the deer will eat them. I've come to the conclusion that I need a bigger deck.

I just bought my first house and it is brand new so first garden and everything.... since being divorced it is me a 4 yr old son .....I am trying not to girly it up but i am trying to figure out how to garden the front where it wont look to girly , but i just dont care , it will look girly and i am trying figure what grows best.

I have a weeping willow in front, tree line divder of fruitless plum trees, along the walk way to the front door of course an ivy vine on a wood trellis ( trying to grow)...... morning glory vine ,a window box of spring time color pastel flowers but now in front of my big bay arched window what i should do.....should i put in shrubs or just plant annuals and prennials and bulbs????

We wont even get into my back yard. these houses come semi landscape in front but backyard all dirt . I just recently slabbbed it with concret for a patio and a patio roof. getting ready to have landscapers put in sprinkers and sodding....I am thinking of putting two cherry blossoms back there and with each tree on each side put in a small flower garden with bricks surrounding it


I was eventhinking of doing what carnation said in an earlier reply ...make an all panhellenic garden of colors of flowers....


I live for home depot and lowes and any nursery near by

[AlphaSigOU]

Don't forget the old soldier's adage -- if you can't grow on it, IT'S GOTTA BE MINED!!!!!

[justamom]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Don't forget the old soldier's adage -- if you can't grow on it, IT'S GOTTA BE MINED!!!!!

Funny!

I've got buds on my roses! (My first year trying climbing as well as shrubs) I did as they suggest and debudded
(is that a word? ) the multi blossoms to strengthen the plant. Now I'm going to let them go.

A new azalea came available here last summer-Encore-it blooms several times a year and has the traditional looking flower. HIGHLY suggest this as the colors are beautiful and the flower survives longer than the others. It's disease resistant too. Fucia, hostas and bougainvillea are new additions. My challenges are a bleeding heart that didn't do nutin' last year, and of course, trying to keep the roses disease free!

COX cable tore up the front by the mail box, (Full sun and dry).
Any suggestions? About 4x5 area backed by free growing red tips
California stick style house. I may just create a rock garden 'cause my maintenance level is already pretty high.
Carnation???

[honeychile]

Originally posted by justamom

A new azalea came available here last summer-Encore-it blooms several times a year and has the traditional looking flower. HIGHLY suggest this as the colors are beautiful and the flower survives longer than the others. It's disease resistant too. Fucia, hostas and bougainvillea are new additions. My challenges are a bleeding heart that didn't do nutin' last year, and of course, trying to keep the roses disease free!

Oh, this sounds like my kind of plant!! I have a small hillside that I'm trying to get covered with azaleas, and that sounds wonderful!!

Someone told me that there's a crepe myrtle that will survive the border-line north. Does anyone know its name? I just love-love-love crepe myrtle, and will get one in a minute!!