Specialty Gardening: Container Garden at Apartment?, 1 by gabagoo

gabagoo wrote:
Gee.... thanks for all the kind remarks.

Kat - by the time late Oct rolls around, I get sad to see it all go.
That's when I have to actually "work".
Most of my plants are hardy for my area so I can leave them out. I try to only get plants that will survive in a pot during the winter. I have a few I have to dig up... the callas & dahlias. The canna, tuberose and some purple callas are in smaller pots that I bring next door to my mother's house. She has a basement. Those pots, the callas & dahlias spend the winter there.
There are a few plants I take indoors and try to keep alive. I don't have a lot of room and VERY poor lighting in the winter.

Barbara - Since I'm not the type of person who "entertains", It's easy for me to turm my yard into a jungle. When I first move here 10 years ago, I had a larger table, with 4 chairs, 4 additional chairs and the bench (in the back corner). My cousin now has the table & chairs. I kept the bench and got a smaller table with 2 chairs. I have a good excuse for not having BBQ parties. I don't have the room! LOL!

As for the pole - in the winter, it's holds an assortment of bird feeders - as shown in this pic. In spring, I have a wire fencing section around it and grow vines. Usually it's Red Runner Beans and Hyacinth bean vines. Right now there's nothing planted.
All my annuals (plants & seeds) are on hold for now.
I'm leaving for Greece on Sunday so I won't be doing any planting until after I return in the beginning of June.
I usually have everything done by the middle of the last week of May. So right now - it's all perennials.
As time goes by, I'll probably have fewer & fewer annuals. Whenever I have to divide a perennial - that's another pot! I'm going to have to start using the pots along the fence for perennials. On the up side... it will be cheaper. Now that I'm retired, I won't be able to afford to load up the car with annuals like I used to.

Nancy