Accessible Gardening: #21 Practical Matters for Phsically Challenged Gardeners, 0 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
LOL. Yeah, I\'ve got the same problem, Carrie, and I don\'t have as good an excuse as you do. It\'s tools and hardware I buy knowing I have what I need, if I could find it. I won\'t let Kay organize either my desk or my workshop and my organizational skills leave something to be desired. Kay says I lack \"a system.\" Maybe, if I bought lots of laundry baskets to put things in..... ;-)
Glad the home projects went reasonably well. Our indoor projects are still on hold until it is hotter and we have more funds.


J, that is incredibly fast growth for a cacti!
According to my research on plants for the xeric line, a long, narrow bed at the top of the slope that is hard to water, the most fragrant xeric plants are tuberroses and acacias. Tuberoses are in the agave family. Their current botanical name is, in fact, Agave tuberosa, but they are still listed in some catalogs as Polianthes tuberosa. We may be able to send you some bulbs to experiment with. I\'m not sure because we didn\'t take the bulbs up last winter and they are marginally cold hardy for us.
You probably know more about acacia than I do from living in California. Tigger tells me they are often used there for scent. If you have to put up shade cloth for the cacti, acacia might also be an experiment. I would keep my eyes open for one on sale locally because that would mean they are doable there.
Even if you don\'t buy from online nurseries, they are a good source of ideas and information. This is a drought tolerant plant nursery I like. We need tough plants for the outlying areas because after our sauna summer comes dry roast summer in July, August and September.
Link to Yucca Do Nursery catalog. http://www.yuccado.com/all-plants.html
I think experimenting and pushing the envelope is fun. Failures don\'t bug me. The trick is finding affordable plant material to work with. The failures would bother me if I paid full nursery price for a plant that may or may not survive.
Sheri!!! Good to see you again. How have you been? There is another thread going in the Sandbox at Gardening.Org. It\'s a free site. Everyone here visits both sites, but Katiebear and BetNC lost patience when DG was having so many technical problems while switching to this format. They are both on the other site. Now that DG has ironed out most of the kinks and I have gotten used to it, this format is okay, but I do believe the other looked better and was more user friendly.
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I hoped to post some bush jasmine and pomegranate flower pics, but our recent rains left them looking battered. Yet another reason to love daylilies.
Pic: Daylily \'Art Gallery Fringe\'