African Violets and Gesneriads: Flowers OT, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Nichole, That is so cool, I would love to have a veggie garden. I've been trying to talk my DH into clearing an area in the front yard for years because that's the only area where we get enough sun. He thinks I'm nuts and he refuses to have vegetables growing in the front yard! He has lived in Fla since before he was a year old and says he's never heard of such a thing! I grew up in Va and remember seeing front yard veggie gardens all through Va, NC, and Ga. I would love to get rid of all lawn and have a wildflower, cottage garden type yard with no grass. I try to tell him it's better for the environment to not have a lawn since it requires so much fertilizer, chemicals and water, but he loves the expanse of green lawn.

What type of beans are you growing with that pretty flower? You said you aren't sure if they are purple or yellow? Purple beans?? I'm real curious as to what those are. What other veggies do you grow?

This is a bloom on one of my Tibouchina bushes.