Carolina Gardening: Stupid Gardener Tricks, 0 by bordersandjacks

bordersandjacks wrote:
Usually I try to post only the good pictures and pretend I never do anything stupid. But, what the heck, I thought maybe we could learn from each others mistakes. So I'm starting this thread in the hopes we'll all confess our less than stellar experiments. Here's my first "smack upside the head."

For a couple years I had this canna that keep getting larger in diameter, but never got more than about two feet tall. I couldn't figure out what its problem was. For goodness sake, they grow like weeds at abandoned home sites and I can't get mine to bloom???? How lame a gardener am I? And then it finally dawned on me one day this spring. I had planted them right under the drip line of the roof- and we either get no rain or 2" in 20 minutes. So I dug them up and replanted them in two spots in the yard. Picture attached. Deep sigh.