Texas Gardening: Things that everybody grows but you manage to kill, 0 by sweezel

sweezel wrote:
Japanese Painted Fern. My aunt goes on and on about how much she loves hers. I bought two for my second attempt and they are barely hanging on.

I am another one that kills Petunias. Usually by now they are covered in brown floppy blooms, barely replacing themselves without a good deadhead. Then they are dead by early July. But..... this year they are still doing great. I bought some white ones as filler between the hot pink Moss Rose and Canna until they filled in. Well it's still thriving and covered in blooms. They get sun from about 2pm to 7pm and get watered about twice a week max.

Lantana - it never lives through the winter and barely blooms for me in the summer.

Petunias this evening... :)

This message was edited Jun 4, 2006 9:06 PM