Accessible Gardening: #21 Practical Matters for Phsically Challenged Gardeners, 3 by Amargia

Amargia wrote:
It is Carrie who has the fragrant peony. I can only dream about those. There is a yellow hybrid that will allegedly grow this far south, but the nursery\'s price tag made me wince and back away.
Wow, no wonder plants don\'t bloom in summer there! Blooming slows down here even with our relative humidity and lower temperatures. I entertain the idea of living in a desert every allergy season. Jim challenges me to try it out for a year. It is like how I dream of Vermont in August until I talk to my sister and she reminds me of what winters in the north woods are like. The joke is I am only hardy to USDA Zones 8 and higher. My gardening experience is exclusively in the tropics and sub-tropics. I have never even sniffed an actual lilac flower, only a perfume that claims to be true to scent.
The 4 corn plants in the container corn experiment are tillering. That is producing side shoots. Most farm children my age had the experience of being sent out into the corn field to cut away the tillers, but I just learned that work might have had more to do with adults wanting to get children out from under foot than improving the corn harvest. . As long as the corn receives enough nutrition and water, tillering isn\'t a problem. It increases the harvest in fact. Since I am probably growing the most pampered corn plants in history, I am not going to cut off the tillers. (There are four plants in my experiment. The \"3\" was a typo.)
Jim forgot I grow a few daylilies. The pink is one of my antique pass-along daylilies. #166 should be a mauve according to the breeder\'s notes. If the pink daylily pictured above ever had a name other than pink daylily, that name has been lost over the years. \"Perfect Pink Lipstick\" works for me. :-)
Naming garden spaces is a practical sentimentality. It is so much easier to say \"in the CanDo Container Garden\" instead of that place with all the container plants downhill from the light pole and a little to the north. The CanDo Container Garden was named after a former member of the gang who used CanDo1 as her user name and mainly did container gardening. .

Jim wants to put on today\'s daylily pics since he is putting on my post. It works better when he does it because he can move faster.
\'Voodoo Dancer\'
\'Cat\'s Pajamas\'
Pomegranate flower