I miss gardening, and I feel your pain jobellesis. The same thing happened to me. My precious roses that I could easily have dug up and given to friends were in a cloud of weeds at my old house. I restrained myself from knocking on the door to explain how to trim them back at the end of the year, how to mulch them correctly...
Now? I try to keep a palm tree alive on the balcony through the summer. I suppose next month I could put a plant or two out there. The heat is starting to break, but desert/urban gardening is just NOT the same as a Midwestern vegetable garden.
This year I'm trying a moongarden. It'll have plants that are fragrant at night, mostly white ones, and we're planting them right off the deck area. Actually, the deck was crushed by a tree last week (thank God I hadn't put the plants in yet) but the new deck is already in, so here we go today!
This is the first year that I've tried heliotrope.
This year I'm trying a moongarden. It'll have plants that are fragrant at night, mostly white ones, and we're planting them right off the deck area. Actually, the deck was crushed by a tree last week (thank God I hadn't put the plants in yet) but the new deck is already in, so here we go today!
This is the first year that I've tried heliotrope.
We have a couple of those that we put in pots and allow to wrap around the deck railing. We love them!! My husband built an arbor a few weeks ago and we are putting some more in. I would recommend that you buy them from a nursery. They take a LONG time to get going from seed and they dont always transfer very well...at least not in our experience.
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